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15-letter words containing c, h, o, s

  • consumer choice — the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
  • copper sulphate — a copper salt found naturally as chalcanthite and made by the action of sulphuric acid on copper oxide. It usually exists as blue crystals of the pentahydrate that form a white anhydrous powder when heated: used as a mordant, in electroplating, and in plant sprays. Formula: CuSO4
  • costochondritis — (medicine) A benign inflammation of the costal cartilage, causing pain between the ribs.
  • council housing — houses or flats built or owned by a local council
  • countercathexis — (psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • counterpurchase — barter, especially of products or materials between international companies or importers and exporters.
  • couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
  • court christian — ecclesiastical court.
  • court of arches — the court of appeal of the Province of Canterbury, formerly held under the arches of Bow Church
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • crash programme — a short intensive programme to learn a skill, language, etc
  • crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • 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.
  • crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
  • cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
  • crown of thorns — a climbing spurge, Euphorbia milii splendens, of Madagascar, having stems covered with spines.
  • crown-of-thorns — a starfish, Acanthaster planci, that has a spiny test and feeds on living coral in coral reefs
  • cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
  • crystallography — the science concerned with the formation, properties, and structure of crystals
  • culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
  • cycling clothes — special clothes, such as lycra shorts, suitable for cycling in
  • cytophotometers — Plural form of cytophotometer.
  • cytotrophoblast — the thickened, inner part of the mammalian placenta nearest to the fetus, covering the chorion during early pregnancy
  • czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
  • decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
  • dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
  • diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • dichotomisation — Alternative spelling of dichotomization.
  • dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
  • dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
  • dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4
  • divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
  • docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
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