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

  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • customs officer — a person employed by a customs service
  • customs service — The Customs Service is a United States federal organization which is responsible for collecting taxes on imported and exported goods. Compare Customs and Excise.
  • cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
  • cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
  • cyclical stocks — shares which are highly sensitive to the business cycle and affected by the performance of the economy
  • cycling clothes — special clothes, such as lycra shorts, suitable for cycling in
  • cystic fibrosis — Cystic fibrosis is a serious disease of the glands which usually affects children and can make breathing difficult.
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • cytoplasmically — by means of a cytoplasm
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
  • decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • decollate snail — a cone-shaped, burrowing snail, Rumina decollata, that feeds on common brown garden snails.
  • decommissioning — the act of decommissioning something
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • demassification — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
  • democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
  • 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
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
  • descending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the south (opposed to ascending node).
  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • 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.
  • desocialization — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
  • despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
  • desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
  • detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • 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
  • dictation speed — a speed of speaking that enables someone to take down what is being said
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