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14-letter words containing s, i, l, e, a

  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • 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.
  • cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
  • capital assets — any assets, tangible or intangible, that are held for long-term investment
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
  • 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.
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • 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
  • celiac disease — a chronic nutritional disorder, usually of young children, caused by faulty absorption of gluten in the intestines and characterized by diarrhea and malnutrition
  • cellini's halo — Heiligenschein.
  • 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.
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • cervical smear — a smear of cellular material taken from the neck (cervix) of the uterus for detection of cancer
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charles wrightCharles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
  • chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
  • chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
  • chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
  • 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.
  • ciliary muscle — the smooth muscle in the ciliary body, the action of which affects the accommodation of the eye.
  • 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
  • cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
  • 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
  • clausius cycle — Rankine cycle.
  • 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.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
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