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15-letter words containing s, a

  • cassette memory — a removable magnetic tape cartridge that stores data and programs.
  • cassette player — A cassette player is a machine that is used for playing cassettes and sometimes also recording them.
  • cassini-huygens — a NASA-ESA spacecraft launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons; Cassini entered orbit around the planet in 2004 and released the Huygens probe which landed on Titan in 2005
  • cast a spell on — to put into, or as into, a trance
  • cast a stone at — cast aspersions upon
  • cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
  • cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
  • cast-iron plant — any of several plants belonging to the genus Aspidistra, of the lily family, native to eastern Asia, especially A. eliator, having large evergreen leaves often striped with white, and grown as a houseplant.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • castner process — a process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide, devised by Hamilton Young Castner (1858–98)
  • castrametations — Plural form of castrametation.
  • casual labourer — a person who is employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
  • cataclysmically — of, relating to, or resulting from a cataclysm.
  • catalina island — Santa Catalina.
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • catastrophizing — Present participle of catastrophize.
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • categorisations — Plural form of categorisation.
  • categorizations — Plural form of categorization.
  • cathedral glass — a semitransparent sheet of rolled glass having a decorative pattern.
  • catheterisation — Alternative spelling of catheterization.
  • catholic school — a school that includes instruction in Roman Catholic faith in its curriculum, with teachers who are often nuns or monks
  • cauchy sequence — fundamental sequence.
  • cause of action — the facts alleged in a complaint, upon which is based the plaintiff's right to a legal remedy in a court of law
  • caustic alcohol — sodium ethylate.
  • caustic surface — a surface that envelopes the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface
  • celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
  • cellar dwellers — the team at the bottom of a sports league
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • central casting — a nominal casting agency that delivers stereotypes to films or, figuratively, to real life situations
  • central reserve — the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway
  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • cephalothoraxes — Plural form of cephalothorax.
  • cerebrovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels and the blood supply of the brain
  • cervical plexus — a network of nerves branching from the spinal nerves of the neck region and innervating the neck, chest, diaphragm, and part of the face.
  • ceteris paribus — other things being equal
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • chagas' disease — a form of trypanosomiasis found in South America, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, characterized by fever and, often, inflammation of the heart muscles
  • chairpersonship — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
  • champagne glass — a glass for drinking champagne, either a glass with a wide mouth and a roughly triangular shape or a tall flute
  • channel catfish — a food fish, Ictalurus punctatus, common in fresh waters throughout central U.S.
  • channel islands — a group of islands in the English Channel, off the NW coast of France, consisting of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Brechou or Brecqhou, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and Lihou (all between them representing the British Kingdom Crown Dependencies of the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey) - the only part of the duchy of Normandy remaining to Britain - and the Roches Douvres and the Îles Chausey (which belong to France). Pop: 149 878 (2001). Area: 194 sq km (75 sq miles)
  • channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
  • chanson d'amour — love song.
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