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16-letter words containing r, u, c, t, a, i

  • canaries current — an ocean current of the North Atlantic flowing southward past Spain and North Africa.
  • cardinal virtues — the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
  • caricature plant — a tropical Old World shrub, Graptophyllum pictum, of the acanthus family, characterized by purple or red tubular flowers and leaf markings resembling the profile of a human face.
  • carpatho-ukraine — a region in W Ukraine: ceded by Czechoslovakia in 1945.
  • cedar revolution — the popular protests in 2005 that brought down the Lebanese cabinet and prompted Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon
  • celebrity status — the prominence of film star, footballer, musician etc who is constantly photographed and written about in tabloids and magazines
  • centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
  • charitable trust — a trust set up for the benefit of a charity that complies with the regulations of the Charity Commissioners to enable it to be exempt from paying income tax
  • chemoautotrophic — producing organic matter by the use of energy obtained by oxidation of certain chemicals with carbon dioxide as the carbon source
  • chemotherapeutic — of or used in chemotherapy
  • chian turpentine — turpentine (def 2).
  • cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
  • christmas cactus — a Brazilian cactus, Schlumbergera (formerly Zygocactus) truncatus, widely cultivated as an ornamental for its showy red flowers
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
  • circuit analyzer — multimeter.
  • circuit calculus — (CIRCAL) A process algebra used to model and verify the design correctness of concurrent systems such as digital logic.
  • circuit training — Circuit training is a type of physical training in which you do a series of different exercises, each for a few minutes.
  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulation — The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
  • circumlocutional — Of or relating to circumlocution : circumlocutionary.
  • circumnavigating — Present participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
  • circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
  • circumstantially — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • circumstantiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumstantiate.
  • clarified butter — butter with the water and milk solids removed, used for cooking at high temperatures without burning
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cluster variable — RR Lyrae star.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • constructionally — In a constructional manner.
  • content curation — the selection, organization, and presentation of (usually) online material, either manually or by a computer program
  • contour interval — the difference in altitude represented by the space between two contour lines on a map
  • conus arteriosus — the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates.
  • corona australis — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere between Ara and Pavo
  • coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • counter-instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
  • counter-reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
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