15-letter words containing r, o, t, s, i
- confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
- confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
- confraternities — Plural form of confraternity.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- congratulations — You say 'Congratulations' to someone in order to congratulate them on something nice that has happened to them or something good that they have done.
- conscriptionist — a person who is in favour of conscription
- conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
- conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
- conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
- considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- constructionism — an educational theory holding that children learn most effectively when actively doing, or constructing, things, rather than being taught information in a traditional schooling method
- constructionist — a person who interprets constitutional law in a certain way, esp strictly
- constructivists — Plural form of constructivist.
- consulting room — A doctor's or therapist's consulting room is the room in which they see their patients.
- 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.
- container class — (programming) A class whose instances are collections of other objects. Examples include arrays, lists, queues and stacks. A container class typically provides methods such as count, insert, delete and search.
- continuous-form — of or relating to paper, blank forms, checks, etc., supplied in a folded stack or roll to a device, as a computer printer, generally with perforations between sheets for later separation and often with detachable punched edges used to advance the sheets through the device.
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- 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
- controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
- controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- conversationism — a colloquialism
- conversationist — Someone skilled in the art of conversations.
- convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
- cooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- copper arsenite — a yellowish-green, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, CuHAsO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment and as an insecticide.
- coriolis effect — a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the Earth when observed from the Earth. The deflection is due to the Earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
- corpora striata — corpus striatum
- corpus striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter situated in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
- correcting lens — a thin lens used to correct spherical aberration introduced by the spherical mirror in certain optical systems
- correlativeness — The state or quality of being correlative.
- corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
- corticosteroids — Plural form of corticosteroid.
- costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
- costochondritis — (medicine) A benign inflammation of the costal cartilage, causing pain between the ribs.
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- counter-sinking — to enlarge the upper part of (a cavity), especially by chamfering, to receive the cone-shaped head of a screw, bolt, etc.
- countercathexis — (psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.
- counterfeisance — the act of counterfeiting
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- counterinstance — an instance that refutes a theory
- counterquestion — a question which acts as a reply to another question
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- court christian — ecclesiastical court.
- court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).