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15-letter words containing a, c, u, s, l, i

  • class-conscious — Someone who is class-conscious is very aware of the differences between the various classes of people in society, and often has a strong feeling of belonging to a particular class.
  • classical music — a style of music composed, esp at Vienna, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This period is marked by the establishment, esp by Haydn and Mozart, of sonata form
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • colouristically — in a colouristic manner
  • communistically — In a communistic manner.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
  • 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.
  • consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • constitutionals — Plural form of constitutional.
  • contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
  • crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • curie-weiss law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to the difference between its temperature and its Curie point
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • definite clause — (logic)   A Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
  • eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
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