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15-letter words containing c, e, t, r, i

  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • counting number — natural number
  • country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
  • court of equity — a court having jurisdiction in equity or administering justice in accordance with the principles of equity.
  • courting couple — a pair of lovers
  • covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
  • covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
  • cpu info center — (processor)   An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
  • crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
  • creatine kinase — an enzyme that, during muscular activity, catalyzes the transfer of a phosphoryl group from phosphocreatine in muscle to produce ATP.
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
  • credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
  • credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
  • credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
  • creditor nation — a nation that owes less to foreign and international bodies than they owe to it
  • creeping myrtle — any of several Eurasian apocynaceous evergreen plants of the genus Vinca, such as V. minor (lesser periwinkle) and V. major (greater periwinkle), having trailing stems and blue flowers
  • crisis software — A small UK company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers.
  • crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
  • crispy critters — (jargon)   (Or "Crispy Crittered". From the "Post" breakfast cereal of the same name) hardware which is fried or toast.
  • critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
  • critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
  • critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
  • critter cuisine — food consisting of the flesh of insects, eaten as a delicacy in some parts of the world
  • crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
  • cross-fertilize — to subject or be subjected to cross-fertilization
  • cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
  • 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 oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • crush-resistant — not being easily creased
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
  • cryoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with the application of low-temperature behavior, especially superconductivity, to electronic devices.
  • 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
  • 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
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • curate's-eggish — good in parts
  • curia rhaetorum — a city in E Switzerland, capital of Graubünden canton. Pop: 32 989 (2000)
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • current affairs — If you refer to current affairs, you are referring to political events and problems in society which are discussed in newspapers, and on television and radio.
  • current density — the ratio of the electric current flowing at a particular point in a conductor to the cross-sectional area of the conductor taken perpendicular to the current flow at that point. It is measured in amperes per square metre
  • current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
  • curtain lecture — a scolding or rebuke given in private, esp by a wife to her husband
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