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14-letter words containing s, t, c, l

  • cottonseed oil — a yellowish or dark red oil with a nutlike smell, extracted or expelled from cottonseed, used in cooking and in the manufacture of paints, soaps, etc
  • council estate — a housing development built by a local council
  • counterassault — a counterattack
  • court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
  • cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
  • creatureliness — creatural.
  • creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • crested lizard — a long-tailed iguanid lizard, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, of arid areas in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, having a row of enlarged scales down the back.
  • criminalistics — the scientific study of criminal evidence
  • criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
  • critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
  • critical state — the state of a substance in which two of its phases have the same temperature, pressure, and volume
  • cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
  • cross-cultural — Cross-cultural means involving two or more different cultures.
  • cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
  • cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
  • cross-national — pertaining to or involving two or more nations.
  • cross-platform — (software, hardware)   A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
  • cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
  • crossbolt lock — a lock controlling two bolts moving in opposite directions, as to the top and bottom of a doorframe.
  • crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
  • crucible steel — a high-quality steel made by melting wrought iron, charcoal, and other additives in a crucible
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
  • crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
  • crux australis — a small conspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere lying in the Milky Way near Centaurus. The four brightest stars form a cross the longer arm of which points to the south celestial pole
  • cryptanalytics — cryptanalysis (def 1).
  • cryptoanalysis — cryptanalysis.
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • crystal gazing — the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • crystal palace — a building of glass and iron designed by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. Erected in Hyde Park, London, it was moved to Sydenham (1852–53): destroyed by fire in 1936
  • crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
  • 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
  • cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
  • culzean castle — a Gothic Revival castle near Ayr in South Ayrshire, in SW Scotland: designed by Robert Adam (1772–92); includes a room dedicated to General Eisenhower
  • cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • cutting stylus — stylus (def 4a).
  • cutting-stylus — stylus (def 4a).
  • cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
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