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14-letter words containing s, t, e, r

  • 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
  • class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • cleptoparasite — Alternative spelling of kleptoparasite.
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
  • close quarters — a narrow cramped space or position
  • closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
  • closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • 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.
  • co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
  • color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
  • come on strong — If someone comes on strong, they make their intentions or feelings clear in an excessive or aggressive way.
  • commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
  • compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
  • compute server — (computer, parallel)   A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
  • computer virus — virus
  • concentrations — Plural form of concentration.
  • concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.
  • concrete class — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, a class suitable to be instantiated, as opposed to an abstract class.
  • concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
  • concretisation — Alternative spelling of concretization.
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
  • coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
  • connaturalness — connaturality
  • conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  • consent decree — a negotiated agreement of the parties to a lawsuit which resolves the disputed issues and is sanctioned by the court; often, specif., such an agreement by which the defendant agrees to cease an activity or practice asserted by the government to be illegal
  • 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.
  • conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
  • conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
  • conservatories — Plural form of conservatory.
  • considerations — Plural form of consideration.
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
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