15-letter words containing s, y, c, o, i
- compositionally — in a compositional manner
- comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
- compressibility — the ability to be compressed
- condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
- congressionally — of or relating to a congress.
- conscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- cooley's anemia — a form of thalassemia characterized by severe anemia, growth retardation, etc. and usually resulting in death at an early age: the genes causing this condition are inherited from both parents
- correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- 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.
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cyclical stocks — shares which are highly sensitive to the business cycle and affected by the performance of the economy
- cycling clothes — special clothes, such as lycra shorts, suitable for cycling in
- cystic fibrosis — Cystic fibrosis is a serious disease of the glands which usually affects children and can make breathing difficult.
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- cytoplasmically — by means of a cytoplasm
- decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
- dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
- dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
- disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- discontinuously — In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
- discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
- divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
- domestic system — a manufacturing system whereby workers make products in their own homes with materials supplied by entrepreneurs.
- dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
- dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.