14-letter words containing st
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
- coast live oak — California live oak.
- coast to coast — extending, going, or operating from one coast of the U.S. to the other: a coast-to-coast television network.
- coast-to-coast — A coast-to-coast journey or route is one that goes from one coast of a country or region to the opposite coast.
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
- cocktail stick — a small pointed stick used for holding cherries, olives, etc, in cocktails, and for serving snacks, such as small sausages
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- collectivistic — the political principle of centralized social and economic control, especially of all means of production.
- coloristically — In terms of, or in relation to, color; in a coloristic way.
- colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
- combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
- come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
- come on strong — If someone comes on strong, they make their intentions or feelings clear in an excessive or aggressive way.
- companion star — companion1 (def 6).
- compatibilists — Plural form of compatibilist.
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- conceptualists — Plural form of conceptualist.
- concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.
- coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- constantine ii — official title Constantine XIII. born 1940, king of Greece (1964–73): went into exile when the army seized power in 1967. He was officially deposed in 1973 and Greece became a republic
- constantine xi — 1404–53, last Byzantine emperor (1448–53): killed when Constantinople was captured by the Turks
- constantinople — Istanbul
- constellations — Plural form of constellation.
- consternations — a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay.
- constituencies — Plural form of constituency.
- constitutional — Constitutional means relating to the constitution of a particular country or organization.
- constitutively — In a constitutive manner.
- constraintlisp — (language) An object-oriented constraint language based on CSP. An extension of Common Lisp and CLOS.
- constructional — the act or art of constructing.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- constructivism — a movement in abstract art evolved in Russia after World War I, primarily by Naum Gabo, which explored the use of movement and machine-age materials in sculpture and had considerable influence on modern art and architecture
- constructivist — Fine Arts. a nonrepresentational style of art developed by a group of Russian artists principally in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by a severely formal organization of mass, volume, and space, and by the employment of modern industrial materials. Compare suprematism.
- consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- contortionists — Plural form of contortionist.
- contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
- contradistinct — Distinguished by opposite qualities.
- contrapuntists — Plural form of contrapuntist.
- control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
- convocationist — a person who supports either of the synods of the provinces of Canterbury or York
- cookie monster — (recreation) (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
- cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
- cooperationist — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.