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15-letter words containing s, t, y, r

  • 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.
  • centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
  • character study — a work of fiction in which the delineation of the central character's personality is more important than the plot.
  • charismatically — In a charismatic way.
  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • charles tiffany — Charles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
  • chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
  • chief secretary — (in Britain) the second most senior Treasury post, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • christmas party — a party organized before Christmas, usually by a firm or organization
  • chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
  • 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)
  • coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
  • colouristically — in a colouristic manner
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • computer system — a computer or a set of computers that works together
  • concrete syntax — (language, data)   The syntax of a language including all the features visible in the source code such as parentheses and delimiters. The concrete syntax is used when parsing the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of abstract syntax tree (conforming to an abstract syntax). In communications, concrete syntax is called transfer syntax.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • correspondently — in a correspondent manner
  • costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
  • cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
  • counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
  • country western — country music
  • couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
  • course of study — an extended period of organized study, often leading to a qualification
  • crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
  • crispy critters — (jargon)   (Or "Crispy Crittered". From the "Post" breakfast cereal of the same name) hardware which is fried or toast.
  • crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
  • crossreactivity — Alternative spelling of cross-reactivity.
  • cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
  • cryoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with the application of low-temperature behavior, especially superconductivity, to electronic devices.
  • cryoprotectants — Plural form of cryoprotectant.
  • cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
  • cryptozoologist — an expert in cryptozoology
  • crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
  • crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
  • crystal lattice — the regular array of points about which the atoms, ions, or molecules composing a crystal are centred
  • crystal nucleus — the tiny crystal that forms at the onset of crystallization
  • crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • crystallisation — (British) alternative spelling of crystallization.
  • crystallization — Crystallization is the process in which crystals are formed either from something that has been melted or from a solution.
  • crystallography — the science concerned with the formation, properties, and structure of crystals
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • 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
  • cut your losses — If you cut your losses, you stop doing what you were doing in order to prevent the bad situation that you are in becoming worse.
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