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15-letter words containing a, y, e, r

  • congressionally — of or relating to a congress.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contemporaneity — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • contralaterally — In a contralateral manner.
  • controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • conveyorization — the process of conveyorizing
  • coronary artery — either of two arteries branching from the aorta and supplying blood to the heart
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • cottage country — any lakeside region where many country cottages are located
  • coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
  • counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
  • counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
  • countercyclical — having the effect of checking or reversing fluctuations in the national economy or the finances of a business
  • counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
  • country cottage — a small house in the country, esp one used for holidays
  • couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
  • cranberry glass — reddish-pink transparent glassware first made in England and the U.S. in the mid-19th century.
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • cranberry juice — the juice of cranberries
  • cranberry sauce — a sauce made from cranberries, often eaten with turkey
  • cranborne money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Lords to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1996
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • crepuscular ray — a twilight ray of sunlight shining through breaks in high clouds and illuminating dust particles in the air.
  • cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • criminal lawyer — a lawyer who deals with criminal rather than civil cases
  • crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
  • crossreactivity — Alternative spelling of cross-reactivity.
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
  • cryoprecipitate — a precipitate obtained by controlled thawing of a previously frozen substance. Factor VIII, for treating haemophilia, is often obtained as a cryoprecipitate from frozen blood
  • cryoprotectants — Plural form of cryoprotectant.
  • crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
  • crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
  • crystal lattice — the regular array of points about which the atoms, ions, or molecules composing a crystal are centred
  • crystal nucleus — the tiny crystal that forms at the onset of crystallization
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
  • currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
  • 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.
  • cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
  • cyclone furnace — a furnace burning liquid or pulverized fuel in a whirling air column.
  • cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • dadchelor party — a party primarily attended by men and held to honour and present gifts to a prospective father
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
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