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15-letter words containing n, i, e, t, y

  • cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
  • centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
  • chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
  • charles tiffanyCharles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
  • chimney-pot hat — a high silk hat; top hat.
  • cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
  • compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • complementarily — In a complementary manner.
  • complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
  • complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • 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.
  • consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
  • contemporaneity — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
  • contingency fee — a lawyer's fee that only becomes payable if the case is successful
  • contingency tax — any new tax that would be necessary in case of a shortfall in revenues.
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • conventionality — the quality or characteristic of being conventional, esp in behaviour, thinking, etc
  • conveyorization — the process of conveyorizing
  • copy protection — a routine that is included in a program by its publisher to prevent the software from being duplicated except for a single backup copy.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
  • counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
  • countercyclical — having the effect of checking or reversing fluctuations in the national economy or the finances of a business
  • country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
  • county palatine — the lands of a count palatine
  • creeping myrtle — any of several Eurasian apocynaceous evergreen plants of the genus Vinca, such as V. minor (lesser periwinkle) and V. major (greater periwinkle), having trailing stems and blue flowers
  • crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
  • cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
  • cryoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with the application of low-temperature behavior, especially superconductivity, to electronic devices.
  • crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
  • 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
  • cyanoethylation — the act of introducing a cyano-ethyl group into a compound
  • 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.
  • cycling clothes — special clothes, such as lycra shorts, suitable for cycling in
  • cyclopentadiene — a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C5H6
  • cytogenetically — (medicine, biology) By means or in terms of cytogenetics, the genetics of the cell.
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
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