15-letter words containing a, s, c, i, t, e
- chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
- chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
- chemotaxonomist — a specialist in the field of chemotaxonomy
- chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
- 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
- chicago heights — a city in NE Illinois, S of Chicago.
- chief assistant — the most important or top-ranking assistant to an official
- chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
- chief secretary — (in Britain) the second most senior Treasury post, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
- child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
- chile saltpeter — sodium nitrate, esp. as found naturally in Chile and Peru
- chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
- chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
- chinese lantern — a collapsible lantern made of thin coloured paper
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
- cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
- chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
- chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
- cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
- 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.
- clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
- class president — the student president of a school or college class
- cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
- cleptoparasites — Plural form of cleptoparasite.
- climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
- coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
- cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
- coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
- coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
- college station — a city in E central Texas.
- combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- committee stage — (in British parliamentary procedure) the detailed examination by MPs of proposed legislation
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- 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
- compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- compatibilities — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
- complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
- complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.