15-letter words containing y, t, r, o, i
- britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
- cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
- camelot library — (library)
- canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
- carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
- category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
- centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
- chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
- chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
- chiropterophily — Pollination by bats.
- city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
- coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
- collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
- colouristically — in a colouristic manner
- combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- 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.
- compressibility — the ability to be compressed
- configurability — The property of being configurable.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- contemporaneity — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
- continuity girl — a woman or man whose job is to ensure continuity and consistency, esp in matters of dress, make-up, etc, in successive shots of a film, esp when these shots are filmed on different days
- contractability — (of a body or substance) the ability to become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc
- contractibility — contractability
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contradictorily — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
- contrary motion — melodic motion in which one part rises in pitch while the other descends.
- controllability — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- conveyorization — the process of conveyorizing
- copy protection — a routine that is included in a program by its publisher to prevent the software from being duplicated except for a single backup copy.
- copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
- corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
- corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
- counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
- counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
- countercyclical — having the effect of checking or reversing fluctuations in the national economy or the finances of a business
- country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
- court of equity — a court having jurisdiction in equity or administering justice in accordance with the principles of equity.
- crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
- crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
- crossreactivity — Alternative spelling of cross-reactivity.