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15-letter words containing u, c, a, y

  • quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
  • royal enclosure — at the Royal Ascot horse-race meeting, an area of Ascot racecourse which is reserved for the Royal Family, members, and their guests
  • rural sociology — the sociological study of life in rural areas and the effects of ruralization.
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • secondary cause — a cause which is not the primary or ultimate cause
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
  • security threat — a threat to the security of a country
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
  • silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
  • so much/so many — You use so much and so many when you are saying that there is a definite limit to something but you are not saying what this limit is.
  • social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
  • socioculturally — from a sociocultural point of view
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
  • tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
  • ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
  • unaesthetically — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
  • unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
  • unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
  • unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner
  • uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
  • uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
  • uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
  • uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • unconditionally — not limited by conditions; absolute: an unconditional promise.
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • under secretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
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