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15-letter words containing u, r, a, l, i

  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • 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
  • churchill falls — a waterfall in E Canada, in SW Labrador on the Churchill River: site of one of the largest hydroelectric power projects in the world. Height: 75 m (245 ft)
  • circular buffer — (programming)   An area of memory used to store a continuous stream of data by starting again at the beginning of the buffer after reaching the end. A circular buffer is usually written by one process and read by another. Separate read and write pointers are maintained. These are not allowed to pass each other otherwise either unread data would be overwritten or invalid data would be read. A circuit may implement a hardware circular buffer.
  • circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
  • circularization — to circulate (a letter, memorandum, etc.).
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • circumstantials — incidentals; details
  • circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • ciudad trujillo — former name (1936–61) of Santo Domingo.
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • colouristically — in a colouristic manner
  • colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
  • communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • congratulations — You say 'Congratulations' to someone in order to congratulate them on something nice that has happened to them or something good that they have done.
  • coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
  • counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
  • counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
  • counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
  • countercyclical — having the effect of checking or reversing fluctuations in the national economy or the finances of a business
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
  • critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
  • crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • 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
  • cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
  • culturalization — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • curie-weiss law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to the difference between its temperature and its Curie point
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • curtain lecture — a scolding or rebuke given in private, esp by a wife to her husband
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
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