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14-letter words containing s, t, r, i, c

  • brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
  • brickor mortis — a period of difficult times in the housing industry, where house prices and sales of properties are falling and credit for new purchases is difficult to obtain
  • broken society — a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
  • brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
  • bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • carcinomatosis — a condition characterized by widespread dissemination of carcinomas or by a carcinoma that affects a large area
  • cardiac arrest — A cardiac arrest is a heart attack.
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • care assistant — a person who is paid to look after one or more severely handicapped people staying in residential accommodation
  • caricaturistic — Grossly and comically exaggerated, like a caricature.
  • carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment
  • cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
  • catachrestical — Catachrestic.
  • catastrophical — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • catcher's mitt — the glove worn by the catcher to protect the hands
  • categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
  • caustic baryta — baryta (def 2).
  • caustic-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • 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
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • centenarianism — the situation or condition of being a centenarian
  • 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.
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • check register — A check register is a record of transactions in a checking account.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chemosterilize — to sterilize (insects or other animals) with a chemosterilant.
  • chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
  • chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
  • chest register — the lower register of the voice, in which the lower range of tones is produced
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
  • chiltern hills — a range of low chalk hills in SE England extending northwards from the Thames valley. Highest point: 260 m (852 ft)
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
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