15-letter words containing i, n, c, u, s, e
- chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
- chef de cuisine — chef (def 1).
- chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
- chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
- chewings fescue — a hardy, fine-leaved variety of fescue, Festuca rubra commutata, grown in the U.S. and New Zealand as a lawn grass.
- chicken nuggets — small pieces of chicken fried in batter
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chinese juniper — a shrub or tree, Juniperus chinensis, of China, Mongolia, and Japan, having scalelike leaves and small, round, purplish-brown fruit.
- chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
- circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
- circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
- circumspectness — the quality of being circumspect
- circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
- close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
- closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- coconsciousness — the state or position of being coconscious
- coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
- 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
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
- community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
- conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
- concurrent lisp — (language) A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
- conjunctiveness — the quality of being conjunctive
- connoisseurship — a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
- conscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- consciousnesses — Plural form of consciousness.
- consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
- consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- conspicuousness — Openness or exposure to the view; a state of being clearly visible.
- consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
- consumer choice — the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
- contentiousness — The state of being contentious.
- contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- contrariousness — The state or quality of being contrarious.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
- coumarone resin — any of the group of thermosetting resins derived by the polymerization of mixtures of coumarone and indene: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, and printing inks.