14-letter words containing t, i, e, o, n
- corticosterone — a glucocorticoid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex. Formula: C21H30O4
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- cost-efficient — cost-effective.
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- cotton stainer — any of various heteropterous insects of the genus Dysdercus: serious pests of cotton, piercing and staining the cotton bolls: family Pyrrhocoridae
- cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
- 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
- council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
- council tenant — a tenant who rents a council house or council flat
- count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counteractions — Plural form of counteraction.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- counterpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpoint.
- 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.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
- courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- cross reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross trainers — training shoes for doing cross training
- cross-question — If you cross-question someone, you ask them a lot of questions about something.
- cross-reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
- crosssectional — Misspelling of cross-sectional.
- cruise control — In a car or other vehicle, cruise control is a system that automatically keeps the vehicle's speed at the same level.
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryoextraction — the surgical removal of a cataract with a cryoprobe.
- cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyanoplatinite — platinocyanide.
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.