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15-letter words containing c, n, s, t, i

  • anticlericalism — opposed to the influence and activities of the clergy or the church in secular or public affairs.
  • anticolonialism — the opposition to colonialism
  • anticolonialist — a person who is opposed to colonialism
  • anticonvulsants — Plural form of anticonvulsant.
  • antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • 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
  • 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.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • apprenticeships — Plural form of apprenticeship.
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
  • 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.
  • atlantic salmon — a valuable food and game fish, Salmo salar, mainly of northern coastal Atlantic waters or, when spawning, in freshwater streams tributary to the ocean.
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • authentications — Plural form of authentication.
  • autocannibalism — The eating of part of one's own body.
  • babinski effect — the reflex curling upwards of the toes (instead of inwards) when the sole of the foot is stroked, normal in infants below the age of two but a pathological condition in adults
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • back-scratching — a reciprocal exchange of favors, aid, or compliments
  • bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
  • bait-and-switch — denoting a deceptive method of selling, by which customers, attracted to a store by sale items, are told either that the advertised bargain item is out of stock or is inferior to a higher-priced item that is available.
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • basic statement — protocol (def 6).
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • bench scientist — a scientist who does experiments in a laboratory
  • benefit society — an organization which, by means of dues, secures for its members certain benefits, such as life insurance, hospitalization, etc.
  • benefits agency — an agency that handles the payment of benefits
  • bessel function — one of several transcendental functions, usually represented as power series, that are solutions to a group of related differential equations.
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • bioastronautics — the study of the effects of space flight on living organisms
  • biogasification — the conversion of organic matter into biogas.
  • biostatistician — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biostatistics
  • biscuit tortoni — an individual portion of tortoni, frozen and served in a small cup, often topped with ground almonds.
  • bits and pieces — You can use bits and pieces or bits and bobs to refer to a collection of different things.
  • bits per second — (communications, unit)   (bps, b/s) The unit in which data rate is measured. For example, a modem's data rate is usually measured in kilobits per second. In 1996, the maximum modem speed for use on the PSTN was 33.6 kbps, rising to 56 kbps in 1997. Note that kilo- (k), mega- (M), etc. in data rates denote powers of 1000, not 1024.
  • bituminous coal — a soft black coal, rich in volatile hydrocarbons, that burns with a smoky yellow flame. Fixed carbon content: 46–86 per cent; calorific value: 1.93 × 107 – 3.63 × 107 J/kg
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