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15-letter words containing u, y, s

  • computer system — a computer or a set of computers that works together
  • conscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
  • consentaneously — In a consentaneous manner.
  • consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
  • cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
  • counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
  • country western — country music
  • couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
  • course of study — an extended period of organized study, often leading to a qualification
  • cranberry sauce — a sauce made from cranberries, often eaten with turkey
  • crepuscular ray — a twilight ray of sunlight shining through breaks in high clouds and illuminating dust particles in the air.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
  • crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
  • crystal nucleus — the tiny crystal that forms at the onset of crystallization
  • 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
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • current density — the ratio of the electric current flowing at a particular point in a conductor to the cross-sectional area of the conductor taken perpendicular to the current flow at that point. It is measured in amperes per square metre
  • cut your losses — If you cut your losses, you stop doing what you were doing in order to prevent the bad situation that you are in becoming worse.
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • diallyl sulfide — allyl sulfide.
  • dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
  • dimethylsulfide — Alternative spelling of dimethyl sulfide.
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • discontinuously — In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
  • disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • dyer's woodruff — a European plant, Asperula tinctoria, of the madder family, having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots.
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • ethyl cellulose — an ethyl ether of cellulose obtained as a white granular solid by treating wood pulp soaked in sodium hydroxide (alkali cellulose) with ethyl chloride: used in adhesives, plastics, insulation, etc.
  • euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
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