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

  • contemporaries — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
  • contesseration — the act of forging a friendship or union
  • contortionists — Plural form of contortionist.
  • contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
  • contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
  • 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.
  • contradictions — the act of contradicting; gainsaying or opposition.
  • contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
  • contradistinct — Distinguished by opposite qualities.
  • contraposition — the act of placing opposite or against, esp in contrast or antithesis
  • contrapositive — placed opposite or against
  • contrapuntists — Plural form of contrapuntist.
  • contraventions — Plural form of contravention.
  • controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
  • conventioneers — Plural form of conventioneer.
  • conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
  • cookie monster — (recreation)   (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
  • cooperationist — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
  • coordinateness — The state, quality or condition of being coordinate.
  • copper pyrites — chalcopyrite
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
  • cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
  • corpus christi — a festival in honour of the Eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday
  • corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
  • corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
  • corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
  • corticosteroid — any steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that affects carbohydrate, protein, and electrolyte metabolism, gonad function, and immune response
  • corticosterone — a glucocorticoid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex. Formula: C21H30O4
  • cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
  • cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
  • cotton stainer — any of various heteropterous insects of the genus Dysdercus: serious pests of cotton, piercing and staining the cotton bolls: family Pyrrhocoridae
  • counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.
  • counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
  • counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
  • counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • countersigning — Present participle of countersign.
  • countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
  • counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • country cousin — If you refer to someone as a country cousin, you think that they are unsophisticated because they come from the country.
  • country singer — a singer of country and western music
  • 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.
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