14-letter words that end in l
- certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
- chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- channel tunnel — the Anglo-French railway tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel, between Folkestone and Coquelles, near Calais; opened in 1994
- charity school — an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
- charles martel — grandfather of Charlemagne. ?688–741 ad, Frankish ruler of Austrasia (715–41), who checked the Muslim invasion of Europe by defeating the Moors at Poitiers (732)
- 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
- chicago school — a group of Chicago architects active between c1880 and c1910 and known for major developments in skyscraper design and for experiments in a modern architectural style appropriate especially to business and industrial buildings: two of the best-known members were Louis Sullivan and John Wellborn Root.
- china wood oil — tung oil
- chisholm trail — cattle trail from San Antonio, Tex., to Abilene, Kans.: important from 1865 until the 1880s
- chlorothalonil — a crystalline compound, C 8 Cl 4 N 2, used as a fungicide on vegetable crops, peanuts, and lawns, and as a preservative in adhesives and paints.
- christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
- 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.
- church council — (in certain Lutheran churches) a body of lay delegates chosen from the congregation and charged with supporting the pastor in religious instruction, contributions to the church, etc.
- cigarette girl — a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.
- circumlittoral — adjoining the shore
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- citronella oil — the yellow aromatic oil obtained from citronella grass, used in insect repellents, soaps, perfumes, etc
- civilizational — relating to civilization
- 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
- climatological — the science that deals with the phenomena of climates or climatic conditions.
- climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
- clinical trial — When a new type of drug or medical treatment undergoes clinical trials, it is tested directly on patients to see if it is effective.
- co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
- common council — the local legislative body of a municipal government.
- commonsensical — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
- communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
- 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.
- compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
- computer model — a model of a process or object created on a computer
- condemned cell — A condemned cell is a prison cell for someone who is going to be executed.
- condensational — Of or pertaining to condensation.
- confirmational — providing proof or supporting evidence
- conformational — manner of formation; structure; form, as of a physical entity.
- congregational — of or relating to a congregation
- conscriptional — of or relating to conscription
- conservational — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
- conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
- consociational — relating to consociation
- conspirational — of or relating to conspiration
- conspiratorial — If someone does something such as speak or smile in a conspiratorial way, they do it in a way that suggests they are sharing a secret with someone.
- constitutional — Constitutional means relating to the constitution of a particular country or organization.
- constructional — the act or art of constructing.
- consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- contracyclical — (of a policy) stabilizing the economy through countering major fluctuations, such as recessions or booms