14-letter words containing s, n, a, r, l
- chancel screen — a screen separating the chancel from the main body of a church
- chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
- channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- charles's wain — Big Dipper
- 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.
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- 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
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- 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.
- clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
- 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
- clearance sale — A clearance sale is a sale in which the goods in a shop are sold at reduced prices, because the shopkeeper wants to get rid of them quickly or because the shop is closing down.
- 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.
- clive sinclair — (person) Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research. Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
- collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- concrete class — (programming) In object-oriented programming, a class suitable to be instantiated, as opposed to an abstract class.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- connaturalness — connaturality
- conscriptional — of or relating to conscription
- conservational — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
- conspirational — of or relating to conspiration
- conspiratorial — If someone does something such as speak or smile in a conspiratorial way, they do it in a way that suggests they are sharing a secret with someone.
- conspiratorily — In a conspiratory manner.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- constraintlisp — (language) An object-oriented constraint language based on CSP. An extension of Common Lisp and CLOS.
- constructional — the act or art of constructing.
- 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
- contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
- coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
- corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
- counterassault — a counterattack
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance