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15-letter words containing tr

  • central african — of or relating to the Central African Republic, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • central america — an isthmus joining the continents of North and South America, extending from the S border of Mexico to the NW border of Colombia and consisting of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Area: about 518 000 sq km (200 000 sq miles)
  • central casting — a nominal casting agency that delivers stereotypes to films or, figuratively, to real life situations
  • central heating — Central heating is a heating system for buildings. Air or water is heated in one place and travels round a building through pipes and radiators.
  • central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
  • central reserve — the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway
  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
  • character trait — a notable feature of a person's character
  • 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
  • chemoautotrophs — Plural form of chemoautotroph.
  • chemoautotrophy — the process of deriving energy through oxidizing inorganic chemical compounds, as opposed to photosynthesis
  • chemolithotroph — Chemoautotroph.
  • chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
  • child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
  • chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
  • citrus red mite — a large mite, Panonychus citri, that is an important pest of citrus.
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • ciudad trujillo — former name (1936–61) of Santo Domingo.
  • class structure — social hierarchy
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
  • closed traverse — a traverse ending at its point of origin.
  • colour contrast — the change in the appearance of a colour surrounded by another colour; for example, grey looks bluish if surrounded by yellow
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
  • commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
  • common entrance — (in Britain) an entrance examination for a public school, usually taken at the age of 13
  • comptrollership — controller (def 1).
  • concertmistress — the first violinist in an orchestra
  • concrete poetry — poetry in which the visual form of the poem is used to convey meaning
  • conductiometric — conductometric
  • conjuring trick — A conjuring trick is a trick in which something is made to appear or disappear as if by magic.
  • construct state — (in Semitic languages) the inflected form of a noun dependent on a following noun, with the combination expressing a genitive relationship, as Hebrew beth David “house of David,” where beth “house of” is the construct form of bayit “house.”.
  • constructionism — an educational theory holding that children learn most effectively when actively doing, or constructing, things, rather than being taught information in a traditional schooling method
  • constructionist — a person who interprets constitutional law in a certain way, esp strictly
  • constructivists — Plural form of constructivist.
  • consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
  • contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
  • 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.
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • contraindicated — not advisable because of contraindications
  • contralaterally — In a contralateral manner.
  • contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
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