15-letter words containing e, n, u, t, r
- countermeasures — Plural form of countermeasure.
- countermovement — the act, process, or result of moving.
- counterpetition — a formal request for legal action submitted to a court by a respondent who has received a petition
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- counterpointing — Present participle of counterpoint.
- counterpressure — an opposing pressure
- counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
- counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
- counterpurchase — barter, especially of products or materials between international companies or importers and exporters.
- counterquestion — a question which acts as a reply to another question
- counterreaction — a reaction against an initial action
- counterreformer — a reformer who acts in opposition to another reform
- counterresponse — a response or reply which opposes or answers a previous response
- counterrotating — (of two corresponding or similar moving parts) rotating in opposite directions: counterrotating propellers.
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
- countersubjects — Plural form of countersubject.
- countertendency — an opposite tendency
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- counting number — natural number
- country cottage — a small house in the country, esp one used for holidays
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
- country western — country music
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- cpu info center — (processor) An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
- credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
- critter cuisine — food consisting of the flesh of insects, eaten as a delicacy in some parts of the world
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- crush-resistant — not being easily creased
- crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
- crystal nucleus — the tiny crystal that forms at the onset of crystallization
- cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- culture pattern — a group of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
- currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
- currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
- current account — A current account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
- current affairs — If you refer to current affairs, you are referring to political events and problems in society which are discussed in newspapers, and on television and radio.
- current balance — an instrument for measuring electric currents, in which the magnetic force between two current-carrying coils is balanced against a weight.
- current density — the ratio of the electric current flowing at a particular point in a conductor to the cross-sectional area of the conductor taken perpendicular to the current flow at that point. It is measured in amperes per square metre
- current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
- curtain lecture — a scolding or rebuke given in private, esp by a wife to her husband
- curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- 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.
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- danse du ventre — belly dance