15-letter words containing u, n, c
- cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
- cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
- carnivorousness — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
- carriage return — a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper
- cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
- cassini-huygens — a NASA-ESA spacecraft launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons; Cassini entered orbit around the planet in 2004 and released the Huygens probe which landed on Titan in 2005
- cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
- castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
- cat-o'-mountain — catamountain
- cauchy sequence — fundamental sequence.
- cause of action — the facts alleged in a complaint, upon which is based the plaintiff's right to a legal remedy in a court of law
- cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
- central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
- centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
- ceremoniousness — The state of being ceremonious.
- chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
- champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
- change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
- channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
- chanson d'amour — love song.
- chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
- chao k'uang-yin — (Tʾai Tsu) 927–976 a.d, Chinese emperor 960–976: founder of the Sung dynasty.
- charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
- charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
- check guarantee — A check guarantee is any method, usually via a plastic card, that guarantees that a payment made by check will be honored by the account holder’s bank.
- chef de cuisine — chef (def 1).
- chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
- chenopodium oil — a colorless or yellowish oil obtained from the seeds and leaves of Mexican tea, used chiefly in medicine as an agent for killing or expelling intestinal worms.
- chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
- chestnut bottle — an American glass bottle or flask of the 19th century, having slightly flattened sides.
- chewings fescue — a hardy, fine-leaved variety of fescue, Festuca rubra commutata, grown in the U.S. and New Zealand as a lawn grass.
- chicken nuggets — small pieces of chicken fried in batter
- child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chinese juniper — a shrub or tree, Juniperus chinensis, of China, Mongolia, and Japan, having scalelike leaves and small, round, purplish-brown fruit.
- chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- chintz curtains — curtains made of chintz
- chitlin circuit — a group of clubs and theaters featuring black performers and intended to appeal to black people.
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church militant — those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.
- church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- circuit binding — a style of limp-leather binding, used esp for Bibles and prayer books, in which the edges of the cover bend over to protect the edges of the pages
- circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
- circularization — to circulate (a letter, memorandum, etc.).
- circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
- circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
- circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place