14-letter words containing y, e, n, a
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- concentratedly — with intense mental application
- concentrically — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- confessionally — in a confessional manner
- confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
- connectability — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contemporarily — 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.
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- continentality — the degree to which the climate of a region typifies that of the interior of a large landmass.
- conventionally — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- copper cyanide — a creamy-white, highly poisonous, water-insoluble powder, CuCN, used chiefly in electroplating and in organic synthesis.
- copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- cranberry tree — highbush cranberry.
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
- crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
- crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryoextraction — the surgical removal of a cataract with a cryoprobe.
- cryoprotectant — an agent which prevents cell damage caused by cryopreservation
- currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- cyanoacetylene — a nitrile compound known to exist in interstellar clouds
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cyanoplatinite — platinocyanide.
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cybernetically — using cybernetics
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- cyclone cellar — (in the US) a cellar designed to give protection from violent storms and cyclones
- cyclooxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins; their inhibition is the mode of action of aspirin and ibuprofen.
- cyclopentolate — a medicine administered as an eye drop that causes pupil dilation and relaxes the lens
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
- cytoprotectant — A cytoprotectant is a medication for ulcers that increases the level of mucus in the stomach in order to protect the stomach lining from acid.
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
- daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.