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15-letter words containing c, r, a, y, e

  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • for a certainty — without doubt
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
  • gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
  • greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterocercality — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
  • hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
  • hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
  • hypercalcinuria — Condition of high levels of calcium in the urine as caused by high levels of bone resorption seen in osteoporosis or hyperthyroidism.
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercatalectic — (of a line of verse) containing an additional syllable after the last dipody or foot. Compare acatalectic (def 2), catalectic.
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • hypercritically — In a hypercritical manner.
  • hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hyperreactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
  • hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • ineradicability — the quality of being ineradicable
  • inextricability — The condition of being inextricable.
  • insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • intercolonially — in an intercolonial manner
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