14-letter words containing s, t, a, r, c, l
- crystal system — any of six, or sometimes seven, classifications of crystals depending on their symmetry. The classes are cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic. Sometimes an additional system, trigonal, is distinguished, although this is usually included in the hexagonal system
- crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
- crystalisation — Alternative spelling of crystallization.
- crystallizable — That can be crystallized.
- crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
- descartes' law — Snell's law.
- describability — The quality of being describable.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
- disceptatorial — disputable
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- disciplinarity — The quality of being an academic discipline.
- discolorations — Plural form of discoloration.
- discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discretionally — At one's discretion.
- discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
- electrostatics — The study of stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
- first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- health service — system of medical care
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- historicalness — The quality of being historical.
- histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
- hyperrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- hypocoristical — (rare) synonym of hypocoristic.
- ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts