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15-letter words containing c, e, u

  • super-efficient — performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry; competent; capable: a reliable, efficient assistant.
  • superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • superconvenient — highly convenient
  • superefficiency — the quality or condition of being superefficient
  • superexcellence — extreme or supreme excellence; the quality of being superexcellent
  • superexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • superficialness — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
  • superspecialist — a highly skilled specialist
  • supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
  • surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • surge protector — a small device to protect a computer, telephone, television set, or the like from damage by high-voltage electrical surges.
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • survival course — a course that teaches people how to survive in the wild and in other dangerous environments
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • tableau curtain — a curtain, often used as an act curtain, designed to be drawn aside and up to give a festooned or draped effect.
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • take account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • technostructure — the group or class of technically skilled administrators, scientists, and engineers who manage and influence business, the economy, and government affairs.
  • tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
  • telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • textus receptus — a text of a work that is generally accepted as being genuine or original.
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • the unconscious — the sum of all thoughts, memories, impulses, desires, feelings, etc. of which the individual is not conscious but which influence the emotions and behavior; that part of one's psyche which comprises repressed material of this nature
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • thought process — thinking, train of thought
  • thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • title insurance — insurance protecting the owner or mortgagee of real estate from lawsuits or claims arising from a defective title.
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