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15-letter words containing c, a, t, m, r

  • samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
  • scatter diagram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
  • sclerodermatous — Zoology. covered with a hardened tissue, as scales.
  • second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
  • secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
  • security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
  • semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
  • semi-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • semimanufacture — a product which forms an intermediate stage in the manufacture of another, often more complex product
  • semitranslucent — imperfectly or almost translucent.
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
  • social democrat — a person who advocates a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  • socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • sodium citrates — the sodium salts of citric acid (monosodium citrate, disodium citrate, trisodium citrate)
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • source material — original, authoritative, or basic materials utilized in research, as diaries or manuscripts.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • tachyarrhythmia — an irregular and too-rapid heartbeat
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • teratocarcinoma — a monstrous malignant tumour typically found in the testes
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
  • thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
  • thermoremanence — the state or quality of being thermoremanent
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • timber merchant — a merchant that deals in wood for use as a building material
  • to part company — If two or more people part company, they go in different directions after going in the same direction together.
  • tobacco budworm — the larva of a noctuid moth, Heliothis virescens, that damages the buds and young leaves of tobacco.
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