14-letter words containing s, e, c, r
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- consternations — a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
- consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
- container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
- contemporaries — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contesseration — the act of forging a friendship or union
- contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
- contractedness — the state of being shortened
- contrapositive — placed opposite or against
- contraventions — Plural form of contravention.
- control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
- control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
- controlledness — The degree to which something is controlled.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- conventioneers — Plural form of conventioneer.
- conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
- conversion van — a van for utility use that has been customized with a luxury interior
- cookie monster — (recreation) (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
- cooperationist — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- coordinateness — The state, quality or condition of being coordinate.
- copper pyrites — chalcopyrite
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
- coriolis force — a fictitious force used to explain a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the earth when observed from the earth. The deflection (Coriolis effect) is due to the earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
- cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
- coroner's jury — a jury called to give a decision by a coroner's inquest
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- correspondence — Correspondence is the act of writing letters to someone.
- correspondency — correspondence
- correspondents — Plural form of correspondent.
- corticosteroid — any steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that affects carbohydrate, protein, and electrolyte metabolism, gonad function, and immune response
- corticosterone — a glucocorticoid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex. Formula: C21H30O4
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- cost the earth — to be very expensive
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- cotton stainer — any of various heteropterous insects of the genus Dysdercus: serious pests of cotton, piercing and staining the cotton bolls: family Pyrrhocoridae
- councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
- counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
- counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.