15-letter words containing t, y, s, i
- biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
- blessed trinity — Trinity (def 1).
- boys' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of men
- british library — the British national library, formed in 1973 from the British Museum library and other national collections: housed mainly in the British Museum until 1997 when a purpose-built library in St Pancras, London, was completed
- cabbalistically — Alternative spelling of cabalistically.
- cafeteria-style — set up to allow a variety of choices.
- cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
- cataclysmically — of, relating to, or resulting from a cataclysm.
- centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
- chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
- charismatically — In a charismatic way.
- 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
- cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
- 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)
- city of glasgow — a council area in W central Scotland. Pop: 593 000 (2010 est). Area: 175 sq km (68 sq miles)
- cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
- coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
- coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
- colouristically — in a colouristic manner
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- communistically — In a communistic manner.
- community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
- compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- compositionally — in a compositional manner
- compressibility — the ability to be compressed
- 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.
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- 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.
- 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 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 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.