15-letter words containing u, n, m, s, i
- combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
- communist china — China, People's Republic of.
- 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
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- constructionism — an educational theory holding that children learn most effectively when actively doing, or constructing, things, rather than being taught information in a traditional schooling method
- consulting room — A doctor's or therapist's consulting room is the room in which they see their patients.
- consumer choice — the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
- consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
- continuous-form — of or relating to paper, blank forms, checks, etc., supplied in a folded stack or roll to a device, as a computer printer, generally with perforations between sheets for later separation and often with detachable punched edges used to advance the sheets through the device.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- coumarone resin — any of the group of thermosetting resins derived by the polymerization of mixtures of coumarone and indene: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, and printing inks.
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- croque-monsieur — a sandwich filled with ham and cheese, either dipped in egg batter or buttered on the outside, and toasted or grilled
- cuisine minceur — a style of cooking, originating in France, that limits the use of starch, sugar, butter, and cream traditionally used in French cookery
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
- deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
- disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- domain calculus — (database) A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
- domain squatter — (web) An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
- doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
- draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
- dual admissions — a system whereby students attaining less good marks than what is required are offered a place provided they successfully complete another course first to improve some aspect of their work
- dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
- 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.
- e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
- eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- entrepreneurism — Synonym of entrepreneurialism.
- equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- family business — company owned and run by a family