14-letter words containing s, e, t, l, i
- breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
- british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
- canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
- capital assets — any assets, tangible or intangible, that are held for long-term investment
- caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
- carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
- catachrestical — Catachrestic.
- cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- celestial city — the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.
- celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
- centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- chemosterilize — to sterilize (insects or other animals) with a chemosterilant.
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- chiltern hills — a range of low chalk hills in SE England extending northwards from the Thames valley. Highest point: 260 m (852 ft)
- cholelithiases — the presence of gallstones.
- cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
- class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
- cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
- cleptoparasite — Alternative spelling of kleptoparasite.
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- close position — an arrangement of a chord that has the three upper voices close together
- closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
- coast live oak — California live oak.
- coated vesicle — a clathrin-covered vesicle that forms from the closure of a coated pit, engulfing the ligand-receptor complex in endocytosis.
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.