14-letter words containing s, i, g, n, l
- carnival glass — a colorful iridescent pressed glassware popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century.
- carrier signal — (communications) A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
- clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- 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.
- coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- cognoscibility — capable of being known.
- colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
- compromisingly — In a compromising manner.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
- coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
- cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
- cost of living — The cost of living is the average amount of money that people in a particular place need in order to be able to afford basic food, housing, and clothing.
- creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
- criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- crystal gazing — the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc
- cutting stylus — stylus (def 4a).
- cutting-stylus — stylus (def 4a).
- cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- digestibleness — The quality of being digestible.
- digitalisation — Alternative spelling of digitalization.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disbelievingly — In a disbelieving manner; in a manner that is difficult to believe.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful