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15-letter words containing a, m, t, r, c

  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • asymmetric bars — a pair of wooden or fibreglass bars placed parallel to each other but set at different heights, for various exercises
  • asymmetric time — musical time consisting of an odd number of beats in each bar divided into uneven combinations, such as 3 + 2, 4 + 3, 2 + 3 + 2, etc
  • at the mercy of — in the power of
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • automatic drive — an automotive transmission requiring either very little or no manual shifting of gears.
  • automatic rifle — a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
  • automorphically — in an automorphic manner
  • autorhythmicity — The quality of being autorhythmic, or generating its own rhythm, as for example the cells of the cardiac muscle do.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • barium chromate — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • bathymetrically — In a bathymetric way.
  • black marketeer — A black marketeer is someone who sells goods on the black market.
  • black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
  • black-marketeer — to sell articles in the black market.
  • boston massacre — an outbreak (1770) in Boston against British troops, in which a few citizens were killed
  • brachystomatous — having a short proboscis, as certain insects.
  • british america — British North America.
  • broadcast storm — (networking)   A broadcast on a network that causes multiple hosts to respond by broadcasting themselves, causing the storm to grow exponentially in severity. See network meltdown.
  • cactus geranium — a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • calcium citrate — the calcium salt of citric acid, used as a food additive
  • calcium nitrate — a white, deliquescent solid, Ca(NO 3) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, fireworks, matches, and explosives.
  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • camelot library — (library)  
  • camera operator — a person who operates a film or television camera
  • camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
  • canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
  • cantilever beam — a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
  • car maintenance — the act of maintaining an automobile
  • cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
  • carmarthenshire — a county of S Wales, formerly part of Dyfed (1974–96): on Carmarthen Bay, with the Cambrian Mountains in the N: generally agricultural (esp dairying). Administrative centre: Carmarthen. Pop: 176 000 (2003 est). Area: 2398 sq km (926 sq miles)
  • carpometacarpal — Anatomy. of or relating to the carpus and the metacarpus.
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • cassette memory — a removable magnetic tape cartridge that stores data and programs.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • 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).
  • castrametations — Plural form of castrametation.
  • catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
  • central america — an isthmus joining the continents of North and South America, extending from the S border of Mexico to the NW border of Colombia and consisting of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Area: about 518 000 sq km (200 000 sq miles)
  • chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
  • chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
  • charismatically — In a charismatic way.
  • chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
  • chemoattractant — a chemical substance that provokes chemotaxis, esp one that causes a bacterium to move in the direction in which its concentration is increasing
  • chemoautotrophs — Plural form of chemoautotroph.
  • chemoautotrophy — the process of deriving energy through oxidizing inorganic chemical compounds, as opposed to photosynthesis
  • chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
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