15-letter words containing c, i, r, e, n, s
- countercathexis — (psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.
- counterfeisance — the act of counterfeiting
- 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.
- counterinstance — an instance that refutes a theory
- counterquestion — a question which acts as a reply to another question
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- 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.
- credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
- credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
- creeping fescue — red fescue.
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
- critter cuisine — food consisting of the flesh of insects, eaten as a delicacy in some parts of the world
- crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
- croque-monsieur — a sandwich filled with ham and cheese, either dipped in egg batter or buttered on the outside, and toasted or grilled
- 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.
- 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
- crush-resistant — not being easily creased
- cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
- cryoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with the application of low-temperature behavior, especially superconductivity, to electronic devices.
- crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
- cuisine minceur — a style of cooking, originating in France, that limits the use of starch, sugar, butter, and cream traditionally used in French cookery
- curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- 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
- curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
- dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
- density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- describableness — The quality of being describable.
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
- dielectric lens — a lens constructed of a material that converges or diverges a beam of electromagnetic radiation of radio frequency
- direct question — interrogative sentence