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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
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