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15-letter words containing y, e, n, a

  • carrying charge — the opportunity cost of unproductive assets, such as goods stored in a warehouse
  • 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
  • cauchy sequence — fundamental sequence.
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • ceylon cinnamon — the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
  • chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • charles tiffany — Charles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chimney-pot hat — a high silk hat; top hat.
  • chinese parsley — coriander leaves used as an herb; cilantro
  • cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
  • chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
  • cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • clinically dead — having no respiration, no heartbeat, and with no contraction of the pupils when exposed to a strong light
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • command economy — In a command economy, business activities and the use of resources are decided by the government, and not by market forces.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • company manners — rules of politeness that people, esp children, are supposed to observe in the presence of other people
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
  • compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • complementarily — In a complementary manner.
  • complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
  • complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • concealed-carry — the practice of carrying a concealed gun or other weapon in public.
  • concrete syntax — (language, data)   The syntax of a language including all the features visible in the source code such as parentheses and delimiters. The concrete syntax is used when parsing the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of abstract syntax tree (conforming to an abstract syntax). In communications, concrete syntax is called transfer syntax.
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • congressionally — of or relating to a congress.
  • consentaneously — In a consentaneous manner.
  • consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
  • contemporaneity — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • contingency tax — any new tax that would be necessary in case of a shortfall in revenues.
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • contralaterally — In a contralateral manner.
  • controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • conventionality — the quality or characteristic of being conventional, esp in behaviour, thinking, etc
  • conveyorization — the process of conveyorizing
  • cooley's anemia — a form of thalassemia characterized by severe anemia, growth retardation, etc. and usually resulting in death at an early age: the genes causing this condition are inherited from both parents
  • copying machine — a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.
  • coronary artery — either of two arteries branching from the aorta and supplying blood to the heart
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
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