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16-letter words containing c, i, r, u, t

  • buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
  • butterfly orchid — an orchid (Oncidium papilio) with reddish flowers, native to South America
  • byzantine church — Orthodox Church (def 1).
  • caducibranchiate — (of many amphibians, such as frogs) having gills during one stage of the life cycle only
  • calcium arsenate — a toxic, white powder, Ca3(AsO4)2, used as an insecticide in the form of a spray or dust
  • calculate a risk — If you calculate a risk, you decide how likely an event is, whether the insurer should underwrite the risk, and at what cost.
  • canaries current — an ocean current of the North Atlantic flowing southward past Spain and North Africa.
  • cardinal virtues — the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
  • caricature plant — a tropical Old World shrub, Graptophyllum pictum, of the acanthus family, characterized by purple or red tubular flowers and leaf markings resembling the profile of a human face.
  • carpatho-ukraine — a region in W Ukraine: ceded by Czechoslovakia in 1945.
  • cedar revolution — the popular protests in 2005 that brought down the Lebanese cabinet and prompted Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon
  • celebrity status — the prominence of film star, footballer, musician etc who is constantly photographed and written about in tabloids and magazines
  • centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
  • charitable trust — a trust set up for the benefit of a charity that complies with the regulations of the Charity Commissioners to enable it to be exempt from paying income tax
  • check-in counter — The check-in counter at an airport or hotel is the counter or desk where you check in.
  • chemoautotrophic — producing organic matter by the use of energy obtained by oxidation of certain chemicals with carbon dioxide as the carbon source
  • chemotherapeutic — of or used in chemotherapy
  • chian turpentine — turpentine (def 2).
  • cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
  • christmas cactus — a Brazilian cactus, Schlumbergera (formerly Zygocactus) truncatus, widely cultivated as an ornamental for its showy red flowers
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
  • circuit analyzer — multimeter.
  • circuit calculus — (CIRCAL) A process algebra used to model and verify the design correctness of concurrent systems such as digital logic.
  • circuit switched — circuit switching
  • circuit training — Circuit training is a type of physical training in which you do a series of different exercises, each for a few minutes.
  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulation — The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
  • circumlocutional — Of or relating to circumlocution : circumlocutionary.
  • circumlocutorily — In a circumlocutory manner.
  • circumnavigating — Present participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
  • circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
  • circumscriptible — Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
  • circumscriptions — Plural form of circumscription.
  • circumsporozoite — (biology, of a protein) Located on the surface of a sporozoite (and involved in host cell recognition and invasion); abbreviated as CS.
  • circumstantially — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • circumstantiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumstantiate.
  • civic university — (in Britain) a university originally instituted as a higher education college serving a particular city
  • clarified butter — butter with the water and milk solids removed, used for cooking at high temperatures without burning
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cluster variable — RR Lyrae star.
  • cogito, ergo sum — I think, therefore I am; the basis of Descartes' philosophy
  • collective fruit — multiple fruit
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
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