14-letter words containing ce
- chancel screen — a screen separating the chancel from the main body of a church
- chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
- change of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
- chantilly lace — a delicate ornamental lace
- charm bracelet — a bracelet that has small ornaments fixed to it
- chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
- chemoreceptive — responsive to chemical stimuli
- chemoreceptors — Plural form of chemoreceptor.
- child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
- choir practice — a choir's regular meeting for practice
- christocentric — having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.
- chronosequence — (geology) A sequence of different soils formed at different times.
- church service — an instance of a religious service in a church
- circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
- cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
- clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
- clearance sale — A clearance sale is a sale in which the goods in a shop are sold at reduced prices, because the shopkeeper wants to get rid of them quickly or because the shop is closing down.
- cleft sentence — a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, especially a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the information being emphasized, as It was a mushroom that Alice ate instead of Alice ate a mushroom.
- closed cornice — a slightly projecting wooden cornice composed of a frieze board and a crown molding without a soffit.
- cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
- coercive force — a measure of the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material as expressed by the external magnetic field strength necessary to demagnetize it. Measured in amperes per metre
- coercive-force — the magnetic intensity needed to reduce to zero the magnetic flux density of a fully magnetized magnetic specimen or to demagnetize a magnet.
- coffee service — a set of china consisting of coffee cups and saucers, a pot, milk jug, and sugar bowl
- colliquescence — the potential for turning to liquid
- coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
- companion cell — any of a number of specialized parenchymal cells adjacent to a sieve tube in the phloem of flowering plants, believed to regulate the flow of nutrients through the tube.
- 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.
- concelebration — the celebration of a Eucharist or Mass by two or more members of the clergy.
- concentratedly — with intense mental application
- concentrations — Plural form of concentration.
- concentrically — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
- conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualise.
- conceptualists — Plural form of conceptualist.
- conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- conceptualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualize.
- concert tuning — the standard tuning for a guitar: E A D G B E
- concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.
- concessionaire — A concessionaire is a person or company that has the right to sell a product or to run a business, especially in a building belonging to another business.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- concupiscently — In a concupiscent manner; with concupiscence.
- condemned cell — A condemned cell is a prison cell for someone who is going to be executed.
- condescendence — a statement of facts presented by the plaintiff in a cause
- condescendency — Condescendence.
- confidence man — A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.
- conscienceless — the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.
- contact cement — an adhesive that sets when the surfaces it is applied to are brought in contact with each other