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14-letter words containing t, r, e, l

  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • 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
  • chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
  • chemical toner — toner (def 4).
  • chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
  • 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.
  • chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
  • 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)
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
  • chlorochromate — (inorganic chemistry) The univalent anion CrClO3-, or any salt containing this anion.
  • chloroethylene — vinyl chloride.
  • chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
  • chocolate tree — cacao (def 1).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
  • chrome leather — leather tanned with chrome.
  • chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
  • chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
  • cigarette girl — a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.
  • circumambulate — to walk around (something)
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • citronella oil — the yellow aromatic oil obtained from citronella grass, used in insect repellents, soaps, perfumes, etc
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
  • class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
  • class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • cleptoparasite — Alternative spelling of kleptoparasite.
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • climate canary — a human being or other living organism whose lack of health indicates environmental problems, reminiscent of the way in which live canaries were once used to detect the presence of poisonous gas in coal mines
  • clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
  • clitoridectomy — the surgical removal of the clitoris: a form of female circumcision, esp practised as a religious or ethnic rite
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
  • close quarters — a narrow cramped space or position
  • closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
  • closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
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