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15-letter words containing u, n, s, e

  • business centre — a place providing office facilities and services
  • business double — a double made to increase the penalty points earned when a player believes the opponents cannot make their bid.
  • business ethics — moral constraints on trading practices
  • business office — the office where the financial transactions, bookkeeping, etc. for a firm or institution are carried on
  • business person — Business people are people who work in business.
  • business school — A business school is a school or college which teaches business subjects such as economics and management.
  • butler's pantry — a pantry in a large house where crockery, glassware, cutlery, etc is kept
  • butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
  • cactus geranium — a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
  • carnivorousness — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
  • 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
  • castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
  • 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.
  • ceremoniousness — The state of being ceremonious.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • 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.
  • chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
  • chef de cuisine — chef (def 1).
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • circumspectness — the quality of being circumspect
  • circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • closed-end fund — A closed-end fund is an investment with a limited number of shares that does not allow new investors.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • coconsciousness — the state or position of being coconscious
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
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