15-letter words containing c, a, r, y, t
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
- redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
- royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
- saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
- salem secretary — a tall cabinet having a recessed upper part fitted with drawers and shelves and a lower part with doors and a section falling or pulling out to serve as a writing surface.
- sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- security threat — a threat to the security of a country
- semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
- semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
- social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
- socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
- socioculturally — from a sociocultural point of view
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- tachyarrhythmia — an irregular and too-rapid heartbeat
- telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
- tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
- tertiary sector — The tertiary sector consists of industries which provide a service, such as transport and finance.
- the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.