15-letter words containing a, i, c
- colonial office — a government body that was set up to oversee the affairs of the British Empire colonies
- colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
- colonialization — the act of bringing into subjection or subjugation by colonializing.
- colonizationist — a person who is in favour of colonization
- 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)
- colposcopically — by means of a colposcope or colposcopy
- combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- come up for air — rise to water's surface
- comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
- commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
- commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
- commissionaires — Plural form of commissionaire.
- commissionnaire — Alternative form of commissionaire.
- commit to paper — to write down; record
- committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
- committee stage — (in British parliamentary procedure) the detailed examination by MPs of proposed legislation
- commodification — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- commoditization — The transformation of something into a commodity.
- commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- common fraction — a fraction whose numerator and denominator are both whole numbers
- common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
- common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
- communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
- communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- communicational — relating to or characterized by communication
- communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
- communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
- communist china — China, People's Republic of.
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- communistically — In a communistic manner.
- commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
- companion piece — a subsidiary object, esp a work of art or piece of writing, that accompanies another
- company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
- company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
- comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
- comparison test — a comparison of particular qualities or traits in two or more things in order to get a measurable assessment
- comparison-shop — to compare prices and quality of competing merchandise.
- compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- compassionating — Present participle of compassionate.
- compatibilities — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.