15-letter words containing c, r, y, o, n, s
- oscars ceremony — a formal annual event in the United States in which small gold statuettes are awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in films
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
- procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- ross dependency — a territory in Antarctica, including Ross Island, the coasts along the Ross Sea, and adjacent islands: a dependency of New Zealand. About 175,000 sq. mi. (453,250 sq. km).
- royal enclosure — at the Royal Ascot horse-race meeting, an area of Ascot racecourse which is reserved for the Royal Family, members, and their guests
- sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- secondary cause — a cause which is not the primary or ultimate cause
- secondary color — a color, as orange, green, or violet, produced by mixing two primary colors.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- secondary xylem — xylem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- service economy — an economy which is dominated by the provision or importance of services (as opposed to products)
- sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
- sociocentricity — socially oriented.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- 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.
- transactionally — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- unceremoniously — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- unix conspiracy — [ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from AT&T). This theory was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced in the back door entry. In this view, Unix was designed to be one of the first computer viruses (see virus) - but a virus spread to computers indirectly by people and market forces, rather than directly through disks and networks. Adherents of this "Unix virus" theory like to cite the fact that the well-known quotation "Unix is snake oil" was uttered by DEC president Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began actively promoting its own family of Unix workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.)
- urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.