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15-letter words containing a, c, t, u, e, s

  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • cause of action — the facts alleged in a complaint, upon which is based the plaintiff's right to a legal remedy in a court of law
  • caustic surface — a surface that envelopes the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface
  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • ceteris paribus — other things being equal
  • chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
  • character study — a work of fiction in which the delineation of the central character's personality is more important than the plot.
  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • charlotte russe — a cold dessert made in a mould with sponge fingers enclosing a mixture of whipped cream, custard, etc
  • chemoautotrophs — Plural form of chemoautotroph.
  • chi-square test — a test derived from the chi-square distribution to compare the goodness of fit of theoretical and observed frequency distributions or to compare nominal data derived from unmatched groups of subjects
  • chinese mustard — brown mustard.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
  • 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
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
  • coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
  • consentaneously — In a consentaneous manner.
  • consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • 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.”.
  • consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
  • consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
  • contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
  • contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
  • 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 surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
  • conventual mass — the Mass celebrated daily in a convent church for all members of the conventual community.
  • 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
  • counter-measure — A counter-measure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
  • counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
  • countercathexis — (psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
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