15-letter words containing c, u, b, i, t
- cabinet picture — a small easel painting, usually under 3 feet (0.9 meters) in width and formerly exhibited in a cabinet or special room.
- cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
- campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
- cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
- centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
- ceteris paribus — other things being equal
- chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
- child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
- circuit binding — a style of limp-leather binding, used esp for Bibles and prayer books, in which the edges of the cover bend over to protect the edges of the pages
- circuit breaker — A circuit breaker is a device which can stop the flow of electricity around a circuit by switching itself off if anything goes wrong.
- circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
- circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
- circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
- claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
- combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
- combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
- communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
- computer-phobia — a person who distrusts or is intimidated by computers.
- configurability — The property of being configurable.
- consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
- corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
- corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- counting number — natural number
- country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
- crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- 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.
- debureaucratize — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
- destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
- eustachian tube — part of the ear
- executive board — administrative committee
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
- groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.