14-letter words containing t, l, i
- 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
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- county council — A county council is an organization which runs local government in a county in Britain.
- court circular — (in countries having a monarchy) a daily report of the activities, engagements, etc, of the sovereign, published in a national newspaper
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
- 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
- coxcombicality — the quality of being coxcombical
- cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
- creatureliness — creatural.
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
- credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- 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.
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- criminalistics — the scientific study of criminal evidence
- criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
- critical angle — the smallest possible angle of incidence for which light rays are totally reflected at an interface between substances of different refractive index
- critical point — the point on a phase diagram that represents the critical state of a substance
- critical ratio — a ratio associated with the probability of a sample, usually the ratio of the deviation from the mean to the standard deviation.
- 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
- critical value — the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis.
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- 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-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
- 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.
- 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.
- cryptovolcanic — of or relating to a rock structure providing indirect or incomplete evidence of volcanism.
- crystal gazing — the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- 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.
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
- culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown