15-letter words containing a, r, c, n, i, s
- credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
- credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- criminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of criminalization.
- crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
- crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
- cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
- crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
- crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
- crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
- crush-resistant — not being easily creased
- cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
- crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
- crystallisation — (British) alternative spelling of crystallization.
- crystallization — Crystallization is the process in which crystals are formed either from something that has been melted or from a solution.
- csk corporation — (company) The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- current affairs — If you refer to current affairs, you are referring to political events and problems in society which are discussed in newspapers, and on television and radio.
- curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- describableness — The quality of being describable.
- desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
- dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
- disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
- disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
- disciplinarians — Plural form of disciplinarian.
- disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
- discoordination — Impaired coordination.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
- disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
- disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
- disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- distance runner — a participant in distance races.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century