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15-letter words containing a, c, r, u

  • circumstantials — incidentals; details
  • circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
  • circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • ciudad trujillo — former name (1936–61) of Santo Domingo.
  • ciudad victoria — a city in E central Mexico, capital of Tamaulipas state. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • class structure — social hierarchy
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
  • clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • colour contrast — the change in the appearance of a colour surrounded by another colour; for example, grey looks bluish if surrounded by yellow
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • colour-reversal — (of film or photographic paper) designed to produce a positive image directly from a positive subject
  • colouristically — in a colouristic manner
  • colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
  • come up for air — rise to water's surface
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • computer-phobia — a person who distrusts or is intimidated by computers.
  • computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
  • computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • congratulations — You say 'Congratulations' to someone in order to congratulate them on something nice that has happened to them or something good that they have done.
  • construct state — (in Semitic languages) the inflected form of a noun dependent on a following noun, with the combination expressing a genitive relationship, as Hebrew beth David “house of David,” where beth “house of” is the construct form of bayit “house.”.
  • consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
  • consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
  • contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
  • contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
  • contour curtain — a curtain having lines attached to several points for drawing up into folds of various shapes.
  • contour feather — any of the feathers that cover the body of an adult bird, apart from the wings and tail, and determine its shape
  • contrariousness — The state or quality of being contrarious.
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • control account — an account to which are posted the debit and credit totals of other accounts, usually in preparation of financial statements
  • control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
  • copper sulphate — a copper salt found naturally as chalcanthite and made by the action of sulphuric acid on copper oxide. It usually exists as blue crystals of the pentahydrate that form a white anhydrous powder when heated: used as a mordant, in electroplating, and in plant sprays. Formula: CuSO4
  • corpus callosum — the band of white fibres that connects the cerebral hemispheres in mammals
  • corpus striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter situated in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
  • corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • cottage country — any lakeside region where many country cottages are located
  • could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
  • coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
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