15-letter words containing c, i, n
- anticipointment — (rare) The state of mind resulting from excitedly anticipating a strongly promoted product, event, film, etc, and then being disappointed when it fails to meet the expectations generated by this promotion.
- anticlericalism — opposed to the influence and activities of the clergy or the church in secular or public affairs.
- anticlimactical — anticlimactic
- anticlinal trap — An anticlinal trap is a structural trap which is closed by an anticline (= an arch-shaped fold in rock, in which rock layers are upwardly convex).
- anticoagulation — (medicine) Acting to combat or prevent coagulation of blood.
- anticoincidence — of or relating to an electronic circuit that produces an output pulse if one but not both of its input terminals receives a pulse within a specified interval of time
- anticolonialism — the opposition to colonialism
- anticolonialist — a person who is opposed to colonialism
- anticommutative — (of a binary operation) having the property that one term operating on a second is equal to the negative of the second operating on the first, as ab = −ba.
- anticompetitive — (in business) discouraging competition
- anticonvulsants — Plural form of anticonvulsant.
- antieducational — opposing the provision of knowledge
- antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
- antihemorrhagic — That stops or reduces hemorrhage.
- antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- antimonarchical — opposed to the monarchy
- antimony glance — stibnite
- antiperistaltic — reversed peristaltic action of the intestines, by which their contents are carried upward.
- antiromanticism — the opposition to romanticism
- antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
- antispeculative — opposed to or acting against speculation
- antitheoretical — opposed to or contradicting a theory
- antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
- antivivisection — opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
- aortic stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the aorta, especially of its orifice, usually as a result of rheumatic fever or embryologic anomalies.
- aplastic anemia — a form of anemia resulting from a failure of the bone marrow to produce adequate quantities of the essential blood components, including leukocytes and platelets
- apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
- appalachian tea — any of various plants, as withe rod, whose leaves were used locally for tea in pioneer times
- appendicularian — of or relating to a family of molluscs (Appendicularia) characterized by their long tail appendages
- apple macintosh — Macintosh
- apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
- apprenticeships — Plural form of apprenticeship.
- arabic numerals — the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the 0 (zero) that originated in India; Hindu-Arabic numerals
- archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
- architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
- arithmetic mean — an average value of a set of integers, terms, or quantities, expressed as their sum divided by their number
- armenian church — the national Church of Armenia, founded in the early fourth century ad, the dogmas and liturgy of which are similar to those of the Orthodox Church
- armour-piercing — capable of penetrating armour plate
- arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
- artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
- artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
- ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
- ascending scale — a scale that is rising in pitch
- assign a policy — If you assign a policy, you transfer legal ownership of an insurance policy to another person.
- association law — any law governing the association of ideas
- astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
- astronautically — In an astronautic way.
- at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
- at sbs instance — If you do something at someone's instance, you do it because they have ordered or requested you to do it.
- at short notice — Notice is used in expressions such as 'at short notice', 'at a moment's notice' or 'at twenty-four hours' notice', to indicate that something can or must be done within a short period of time.