15-letter words containing s, t, i, c
- child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
- child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
- chile saltpeter — sodium nitrate, esp. as found naturally in Chile and Peru
- chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
- chinese crested — a small dog of a Chinese breed having long slender legs and a hairless body with hair only on the feet, head, and tail
- chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
- chinese lantern — a collapsible lantern made of thin coloured paper
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- chintz curtains — curtains made of chintz
- cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
- cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
- cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- chorioallantois — the membrane of a fetus that is formed by the merging of the allantois and the chorion
- chorioretinitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the choroid and retina of the eye.
- christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
- christcross-row — the alphabet.
- christmas carol — a joyful hymn or religious song, celebrating the birth of Christ
- christmas party — a party organized before Christmas, usually by a firm or organization
- chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
- chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
- chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
- church register — parish register.
- cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
- circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
- circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
- circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
- circumlocutious — Circumlocutional.
- circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
- circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
- circumscriptive — That circumscribes or outlines.
- circumspectness — the quality of being circumspect
- circumstantials — incidentals; details
- circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
- circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
- citizen science — scientific research, data collection, etc., that involves the participation of nonscientists (often used attributively): Bird watchers report their bird observations to citizen-science projects.
- citrus red mite — a large mite, Panonychus citri, that is an important pest of citrus.
- citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
- city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
- city of glasgow — a council area in W central Scotland. Pop: 593 000 (2010 est). Area: 175 sq km (68 sq miles)
- civil liberties — A person's civil liberties are the rights they have to say, think, and do what they want as long as they respect other people's rights.
- claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
- clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
- class president — the student president of a school or college class
- classical latin — the form of Latin used in classical literature, especially the literary Latin of the 1st century b.c. and the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d.
- classifications — Plural form of classification.
- claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
- cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
- cleptoparasites — Plural form of cleptoparasite.
- climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1