15-letter words containing n, a, s
- coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
- coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
- coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
- coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
- college station — a city in E central Texas.
- collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
- colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
- colonizationist — a person who is in favour of colonization
- colour contrast — the change in the appearance of a colour surrounded by another colour; for example, grey looks bluish if surrounded by yellow
- colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
- comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
- commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
- commissionaires — Plural form of commissionaire.
- commissionnaire — Alternative form of commissionaire.
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
- commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
- communist china — China, People's Republic of.
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- communistically — In a communistic manner.
- company manners — rules of politeness that people, esp children, are supposed to observe in the presence of other people
- company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
- comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
- comparison test — a comparison of particular qualities or traits in two or more things in order to get a measurable assessment
- comparison-shop — to compare prices and quality of competing merchandise.
- compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- compassionating — Present participle of compassionate.
- complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
- complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- compositionally — in a compositional manner
- compotationship — the state of being a compotator or drinking companion
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.
- comrade-in-arms — A comrade-in-arms is someone who has worked for the same cause or purpose as you and has shared the same difficulties and dangers.
- conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
- conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
- conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
- concert pianist — a person who earns a living from giving solo performances on the piano in front of audiences
- concession road — (esp in Ontario) one of a series of roads separating concessions in a township
- concessionaires — a person, group, or company to whom a concession has been granted, especially to operate a subsidiary business or service: a popcorn concessionaire at a baseball park.
- concrete syntax — (language, data) The syntax of a language including all the features visible in the source code such as parentheses and delimiters. The concrete syntax is used when parsing the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of abstract syntax tree (conforming to an abstract syntax). In communications, concrete syntax is called transfer syntax.
- conestoga wagon — a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
- confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.