15-letter words containing t, u, m, a, c
- corpus striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter situated in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
- corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
- coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
- counter-measure — A counter-measure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- countermeasures — Plural form of countermeasure.
- court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
- critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- curia rhaetorum — a city in E Switzerland, capital of Graubünden canton. Pop: 32 989 (2000)
- currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- dartmouth basic — (language) The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
- decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
- eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
- euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
- excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
- excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
- excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
- faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- human condition — mortality
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.