15-letter words containing c, a, r, y, t
- bathymetrically — In a bathymetric way.
- battery charger — a device that can restore the charge to a battery, usually by means of electricity
- berkeley castle — a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327
- bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
- brachystomatous — having a short proboscis, as certain insects.
- britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
- buryat republic — a constituent republic of SE central Russia, on Lake Baikal: mountainous, with forests covering over half the total area. Capital: Ulan-Ude. Pop: 981 000 (2002). Area: 351 300 sq km (135 608 sq miles)
- butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
- cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
- cafeteria-style — set up to allow a variety of choices.
- calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
- calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
- camelot library — (library)
- canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
- canterbury bell — a campanulaceous biennial European plant, Campanula medium, widely cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers
- canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
- carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
- cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
- carry one's bat — (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed
- carry the torch — If you say that someone is carrying the torch of a particular belief or movement, you mean that they are working hard to ensure that it is not forgotten and continues to grow stronger.
- cassette memory — a removable magnetic tape cartridge that stores data and programs.
- cassette player — A cassette player is a machine that is used for playing cassettes and sometimes also recording them.
- category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
- character study — a work of fiction in which the delineation of the central character's personality is more important than the plot.
- charismatically — In a charismatic way.
- charlatanically — In a charlatanic manner.
- charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
- charles tiffany — Charles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
- chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
- chateau-thierry — a town in N central France, on the River Marne: scene of the second battle of the Marne (1918) during World War I. Pop: 14 967 (1999)
- 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
- chief secretary — (in Britain) the second most senior Treasury post, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- chloral hydrate — a colourless crystalline soluble solid produced by the reaction of chloral with water and used as a sedative and hypnotic; 2,2,2-trichloro-1,1-ethanediol. Formula: CCl3CH(OH)2
- christmas party — a party organized before Christmas, usually by a firm or organization
- chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
- circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
- coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
- collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
- colouristically — in a colouristic manner
- combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
- comfortably off — If someone is comfortably off, they have enough money to be able to live without financial problems.
- comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- complementarily — In a complementary manner.
- complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
- complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- concrete syntax — (language, data) The syntax of a language including all the features visible in the source code such as parentheses and delimiters. The concrete syntax is used when parsing the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of abstract syntax tree (conforming to an abstract syntax). In communications, concrete syntax is called transfer syntax.