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15-letter words containing c, y, t, i

  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
  • romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
  • san jacinto day — a legal holiday observed in Texas on April 21.
  • sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
  • saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
  • security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
  • security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
  • security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
  • security threat — a threat to the security of a country
  • self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
  • self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
  • semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
  • semi-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
  • semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
  • sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
  • seven-year itch — scabies.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
  • sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
  • social mobility — mobility (def 2).
  • social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
  • socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
  • society islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific: administratively part of French Polynesia; consists of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands; became a French protectorate in 1843 and a colony in 1880. Pop: 214 445 (2002). Area: 1595 sq km (616 sq miles)
  • sociocentricity — socially oriented.
  • socioculturally — from a sociocultural point of view
  • solipsistically — in a solipsistic manner
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
  • stalactitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalactites
  • stalagmitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalagmites
  • statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
  • stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • strike it lucky — to have some good luck
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
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