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15-letter words containing c, o, s, t, e

  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • tall-case clock — a pendulum clock tall enough to stand on the floor; a grandfather's or grandmother's clock.
  • tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
  • technostructure — the group or class of technically skilled administrators, scientists, and engineers who manage and influence business, the economy, and government affairs.
  • telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
  • telestereoscope — a binocular optical instrument used for stereoscopic viewing of distant objects; a small range finder.
  • ten-weeks stock — a stock, Matthiola incana annua, of the mustard family, having spikes of white, lilac, or crimson flowers.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.
  • tertiary sector — The tertiary sector consists of industries which provide a service, such as transport and finance.
  • text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the ocean state — the US state of Rhode Island
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • the unconscious — the sum of all thoughts, memories, impulses, desires, feelings, etc. of which the individual is not conscious but which influence the emotions and behavior; that part of one's psyche which comprises repressed material of this nature
  • the-sketch-book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • thermochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the relationship between chemical action and heat.
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thought process — thinking, train of thought
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • to change hands — When something changes hands, its ownership changes, usually because it is sold to someone else.
  • to do sb credit — If you say that something does someone credit, you mean that they should be praised or admired because of it.
  • to earn a crust — If you earn a crust, you earn enough money to live on, especially by doing work you would prefer not to do.
  • to lose contact — If you lose contact with someone who you have been friendly with, you no longer see them, speak to them, or write to them.
  • to one's credit — commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.: Give credit where it is due.
  • to sb's defence — If you come to someone's defence, you help them by doing or saying something to protect them.
  • toreador fresco — a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete.
  • torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
  • tortoise brooch — a domed, oval brooch worn in pairs by Viking women.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
  • training course — practical programme of study
  • transfer factor — a lymphocyte product that, when extracted from T cells of an individual with immunity to a particular antigen, can confer that immunity when administered to another individual of the same species.
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • trustee process — (in New England) garnishment (def 1).
  • tychonic system — a model for planetary motion devised by Tycho Brahe in which the earth is stationary and at the center of the planetary system, the sun and moon revolve around the earth, and the other planets revolve around the sun.
  • ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • unconscientious — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
  • unconsentaneous — disagreeable or discordant
  • unconstrainable — unable to be confined
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • uncontrollables — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
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