14-letter words containing t, o, e, s
- castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
- catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
- categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
- 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
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
- censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
- center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
- centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- certifications — Plural form of certification.
- chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
- charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
- charter school — an alternative school that is founded on a charter, or contract, between a sponsoring group and a governmental unit and is funded with public money
- 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.
- cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
- cheesebox seat — a chair seat, usually of rush, having a rounded form and surrounded with a thin strip of wood.
- chemoreceptors — Plural form of chemoreceptor.
- 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.
- chemosynthesis — the formation of organic material by certain bacteria using energy derived from simple chemical reactions
- chemosynthetic — That utilizes chemosynthesis.
- chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
- chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- chest-on-chest — a chest of drawers fitted onto another, somewhat larger one
- chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
- chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
- cholecystotomy — the surgical procedure of cutting into the gall bladder in order to extract gallstones
- cholelithiases — the presence of gallstones.
- cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
- cholesteatomas — Plural form of cholesteatoma.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
- christmas rose — an evergreen ranunculaceous plant, Helleborus niger, of S Europe and W Asia, with white or pinkish winter-blooming flowers
- christocentric — having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.
- chromatophores — Plural form of chromatophore.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- cinnamon stone — essonite
- circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- clacton-on-sea — a town on the North Sea coast in Essex, England.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.