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15-letter words containing ac

  • brushback pitch — a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • by all accounts — according to everyone
  • cache coherency — (storage)   (Or "cache consistency") /kash koh-heer'n-see/ The synchronisation of data in multiple caches such that reading a memory location via any cache will return the most recent data written to that location via any (other) cache. Some parallel processors do not cache accesses to shared memory to avoid the issue of cache coherency. If caches are used with shared memory then some system is required to detect when data in one processor's cache should be discarded or replaced because another processor has updated that memory location. Several such schemes have been devised.
  • cache la poudre — a river in N Colorado, flowing N and E to the South Platte River. 126 miles (203 km) long.
  • cacodaemoniacal — Demonic; evil.
  • cactus geranium — a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
  • caffe macchiato — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and a small amount of foamed milk.
  • calcium lactate — a salt of lactic acid. Formula: Ca(C3H5O3)2·5H2O
  • call to account — to insist on explanation
  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
  • capital account — A country's capital account is the part of its balance of payments that is concerned with the movement of capital.
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • carbazotic acid — picric acid.
  • carboxylic acid — any of a class of organic acids containing the carboxyl group
  • cardiac massage — a rhythmic compressing of the heart, using the hands to force blood through the blood vessels: an emergency medical procedure for treating heart failure
  • carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
  • carpometacarpal — Anatomy. of or relating to the carpus and the metacarpus.
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • cartesian space — ordinary two- or three-dimensional space.
  • cataclysmically — of, relating to, or resulting from a cataclysm.
  • catallactically — by or in the manner of exchange
  • 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
  • caustic surface — a surface that envelopes the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface
  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • cephalothoracic — the anterior part of the body in certain arachnids and crustaceans, consisting of the coalesced head and thorax.
  • character actor — A character actor is an actor who specializes in playing unusual or eccentric people.
  • character dance — a style of balletic folk dance that intends to give a sense of national character and color.
  • character level — the stage or rank of a player character in a role-playing game or video game: When you advance to a higher character level, your character will have access to more advanced skills.
  • character piece — a short, simple piece, usually for piano, of a type developed chiefly during the 19th century, often of a descriptive or seemingly improvisatory character.
  • character space — a space in a computer file into which a character can be fitted or which can be left blank
  • character study — a work of fiction in which the delineation of the central character's personality is more important than the plot.
  • character trait — a notable feature of a person's character
  • characteristick — Obsolete form of characteristic.
  • characteristics — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
  • characterizable — Able to be characterized.
  • chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
  • chelsea tractor — a four-by-four
  • chemoattractant — a chemical substance that provokes chemotaxis, esp one that causes a bacterium to move in the direction in which its concentration is increasing
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
  • chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
  • chromic acetate — a grayish-green, water-soluble powder, Cr(C 2 H 3 O 2) 3 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles.
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
  • clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • coeliac disease — a chronic intestinal disorder caused by sensitivity to the protein gliadin contained in the gluten of cereals, characterized by distention of the abdomen and frothy and pale foul-smelling stools
  • common fraction — a fraction whose numerator and denominator are both whole numbers
  • commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
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