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15-letter words containing con

  • primary contact — a communication or relationship between people that is characterized by intimacy and personal familiarity.
  • pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
  • process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
  • protein content — amount of protein in a food
  • pyrometric cone — (in a kiln) a triangular piece of material that indicates by bending or melting that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
  • quasi-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
  • quasicontinuous — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.
  • reconcentration — the act of concentrating again.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
  • reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recontamination — the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
  • recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
  • redwood seconds — a scale of measurement of viscosity based on the time in seconds taken for fluid to flow through a standard orifice: accepted as standard in the UK in 1886
  • rent-controlled — regulated by law to control the rent a landlord can charge for domestic accommodation and to guarantee a landlord's right to evict tenants
  • roller cone bit — A roller cone bit is a tool used for crushing rock, which has three cones that rotate, with attached hardened metal teeth which break the rock into small pieces.
  • scpi consortium — (body)   A body established to promote Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments. Address: 8380 Hercules Drive, Suite P3, La Mesa, CA 91942, USA.
  • scsi controller — SCSI adaptor
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
  • second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
  • second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
  • second position — a position in which the feet are spread apart and are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out.
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • secondary cause — a cause which is not the primary or ultimate cause
  • secondary color — a color, as orange, green, or violet, produced by mixing two primary colors.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
  • secondary xylem — xylem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • self-conception — self-concept.
  • self-confidence — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-consistent — consistent with oneself or itself.
  • self-controlled — Someone who is self-controlled is able to not show their feelings or not do the things that their feelings make them want to do.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • service economy — an economy which is dominated by the provision or importance of services (as opposed to products)
  • set in concrete — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
  • sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
  • silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
  • silicon dioxide — the dioxide form of silicon, SiO 2 , occurring especially as quartz sand, flint, and agate: used usually in the form of its prepared white powder chiefly in the manufacture of glass, water glass, ceramics, and abrasives.
  • silicone rubber — any of the synthetic rubbers made from silicone elastomers.
  • smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
  • social contract — the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members.
  • star connection — a connection used in a polyphase electrical device or system of devices in which the windings each have one end connected to a common junction, the star point, and the other end to a separate terminal
  • subconjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
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