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15-letter words containing n, e, s, t, c

  • punctiliousness — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
  • quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • queen substance — a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.
  • queen's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
  • quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
  • quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
  • quintec-objects — Based on Quintec Prolog (not Quintus). British.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • recollectedness — the state or quality of being recollected
  • reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
  • reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recreationalist — recreationist.
  • recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • reference strip — a strip of film used to help calculate and monitor the exposing and processing of photographs
  • reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
  • reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
  • resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
  • resource centre — a place which provides information, equipment and support
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
  • resurrectionist — a person who brings something to life or view again.
  • resurrectionize — to bring back from or raise from the dead
  • retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
  • robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • run-on sentence — a written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction.
  • saint celestine — Saint (Pietro di Murrone or Morone) 1215–96, Italian ascetic: pope 1294.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
  • 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.
  • scarlet tanager — an American tanager, Piranga olivacea, the male of which is bright red with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • science fiction — a form of fiction that draws imaginatively on scientific knowledge and speculation in its plot, setting, theme, etc.
  • scientific name — Latin term for sth
  • screen-printing — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • scsi controller — SCSI adaptor
  • second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
  • second position — a position in which the feet are spread apart and are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out.
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