15-Letter Words Containing C

Abstractionism

Painters like Rothko and Pollock

Pollock and Kline, for example

See spiny-headed worm .

Acceptability

ACCEPTINGNESS accepting

Accessibility

""The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.""

Accommodating

""ACCOMMODATION The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; followed by to. to.""

Dancing, singing, et al.

Bill praises mum for bringing in gifts

Special skills

Accountable

Accountantship

ACCULTURATION

A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.

Achondroplasia

Of or pertaining to achondroplasia.

Confession; thanks

Account for information found on workers' square? Thanks!

This expression of appreciation has been given the nod

Acknowledgment

Greed

The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.

Adenocarcinoma

Adrenalectomy

Aerodynamical

Aerodynamicist

Affectability

AGRANULOCYTE

AGRANULOCYTE

One in the business of cultivating soil

Rural guilt I cast off as a farmer

Farm expert

ALGORITHMIC of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Quality of figurative writing

Allergenicity

ALUMINOSILICATE

Ammonification

""Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.""

ANACOLUTHIC Lacking grammatical sequence.

Plural or third person singular

""A disease caused by hookworm infestation and marked by progressive anemia. Also called hookworm disease , tunnel disease .""

Anfractuosity

""ANISOTROPIC Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.anisotropic.""

Seeing man as focus of the universe

Regarding humans as all-important

Revolving around mankind

Like Mead's field

Man's in pathetic poncho, wrestling with alligator

Described in a human form

Having a human form

Treating nonhuman beings as humans

Plural noun (-isms)

Word with prefix anti-

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

Anticapitalism

Anticapitalist

Anticarcinogen

CHOLESTEROL

Inflected form of CHOLINERGIC Inflected form of CHOLINE an alcohol found bile

Being opposed to any priest or saint I call 'crime' ridiculously

""Inflected form of CLIMACTICAL Inflected form of CLIMACTIC Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.""

Widespread feeling in the East.

Trend in world national setup.

COLONIALIST a believer in or advocate of colonialism{3}.

Monopolistic

Lyrica and Valium, for two

Anticonvulsive

Plural noun (-tions)

Like video games, some believe

FORECLOSURE The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

Antihistaminic

Committing no criminal act. Ah, to be a republican!

Antimonarchist

Plural or third person singular

Antiradicalism

""ROMANTICISM A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi<?/val forms and methods in opposition to the socalled classical style.""

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

Antisyphilitic

""THEORETICAL Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.""

""TUBERCULOUS Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.""

Opposition to vivisection.

By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.

Apocalypticism

Applicability

Train times (wordplay)

Potential artisans in dentures!

In which tradesmen learn joints

Tour golfer's need (wordplay)

Asset for social people

Open quality: skill at getting ball on green (wordplay)

Pl. archaebacteria An archaeon.

Archaeopteryx

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

Architectural

Artificiality

Associationism

Associationist

Associativity

According to a means of proposed propulsion.

Astrophysical

Astrophysicist

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by irregular fatty deposits on the inner surface of large and medium-sized arteries; the deposits are associated with fibrosis and calcification of the inner layer of the arteries. Similar conditions may be found in swine and fowl. The deposits may become large enough to impede the blood circulation and in some cases may restrict the blood supply to the heart.

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.

In relation to the atmosphere.

ATROCIOUSNESS atrocious

AUDACIOUSNESS The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.

Authentication

Autochthonous

""Statistics (Mathematics & Measurements / Statistics) the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent Also called serial correlation AUTOTRANSFUSION (Med) &#x2192; Eigenbluttransfusion f BENZENECARBONYL (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) (modifier) the systematic name for benzoyl BIOTECHNOLOGIST &#x2192; biotechnologue mf , biotechnologiste mf hc_En_Fr() BRACHISTOCHRONE (Mathematics) Maths the curve between two points through which a body moves under the force of gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve; the path of quickest descent [from Greek brakhistos , superlative of brakhus short + chronos time]""

Autographical

""AUTOTROPHIC Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

BACKSCATTERING backscatter

Of the study of microorganisms

Life scientists

Scientists in bars, egoistic lot getting sozzled

Bacteriophagy

BAREFACEDNESS The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.

Of or pertaining to basidiomycetes.

Bathymetrical

Beautification

Benzanthracene

Like a librarian's job

Sourced

Bidialectalism

Bidirectional

Biogeochemical

The study of the relationship between the geochemistry of a region and the animal and plant life in that region.

Of or pertaining to biogeography.

Natural glow (wordplay)

*Natural light (wordplay)

The glow of a glowworm

(used with a sing. verb) The application of mathematical principles to biological processes.

Biomechanical

(used with a sing. verb) Application of statistics to the analysis of biological and medical data.

Commercial genetic manipulation techniques

""&#x2192; biotechnologue mf , biotechnologiste mf hc_En_Fr()""

Like serpentine writing

Brachycephaly

Braunschweiger

Bronchodilator

Bronchoscopist

BUREAUCRATISE bureaucrat

BUREAUCRATIZE

CANNIBALIZE CANNIBAL one who eats his own kind

""CAPACIOUSNESS The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.""

Total corporate liabilities

Features of proper nouns

'Z' in Italian, endlessly beset by subtitles in letters made large

""CARCINOGENIC Causing or tending to cause cancer; as, the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals or of ionizing radiation.as, the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals or of ionizing radiation.""

Carcinosarcoma

Pertaining to the heart and lungs

Carnivorous

Carpetbaggery

CATACLYSMIC Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.

Categorization

The operation of introducing a catheter.

CEASELESSNESS ceaseless

Centralization

Centrifugation

Adjective (-ic)

""The anterior section of arachnids and many crustaceans, consisting of the fused head and thorax.""

Cephalothorax

Of or relating to the blood vessels that supply the brain.

Attention to formal procedures

Formality of style that could make connoisseur seem silly

Chancellorship

Changeability

CHANGEFULNESS changeful

Channelization

Traits which with care vary in styles

Mark is in touch with jerks in Features

Honesty, politeness, charm, etc.

CHEERLESSNESS cheerless

CHEMOAUTOTROPH

Chemoreception

CHEMOTACTIC

Chemotaxonomy

""Classification of organisms based on differences at the biochemical level, especially in the amino acid sequences of common proteins. Also called chemosystematics .""

Chemotherapist

CHILDLESSNESS The state of being childless.

CHILDLIKENESS childlike

Star-of-Bethlehem flowers

""An antibiotic, C 11 H 12 Cl 2 N 2 O 5 , derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or produced synthetically and effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.""

Chlorothiazide

Chlorpromazine

Chlorpropamide

X-ray examination of the bile ducts following administration of a radiopaque contrast medium.

See vitamin D .

Pl. cholecystectomies Surgical removal of the gallbladder.

Plural or third person singular

Cholecystitis

""Abbr. CCK A hormone produced principally by the small intestine in response to the presence of fats, causing contraction of the gallbladder, release of bile, and secretion of pancreatic digestive enzymes. Also called pancreozymin .""

Cholestyramine

CHOLINERGIC

Cholinesterase

Chondrocranium

Chordamesoderm

""The highly vascular fetal membrane that consists of the fused chorion and allantois, found adjacent to the eggshell in reptiles and birds and constituting the placenta in most mammals.""

A very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois.

Pl. choriocarcinomas or choriocarcinomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor that develops from trophoblast cells and usually occurs in the uterus.

Chromatograph

Chromatograph

CHROMATOGRAPH a piece of equipment used to perform chromatography{2}.

Chronobiology

The study of the effects of time and rhythmical phenomena on life processes.

January first (wordplay)

Chronotherapy

""Of or relating to a style of baroque architecture of Spain and its Latin-American colonies, characterized by elaborate and extravagant decoration.""

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

""CINEMATOGRAPH an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo\'94gyroscope, zo\'94praxiscope, etc.movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the <altname>movie projector</altname> are <altname>animatograph</altname>, <altname>biograph</altname>, <altname>bioscope</altname>, <altname>electrograph</altname>, <altname>electroscope</altname>, <altname>kinematograph</altname>, <altname>kinetoscope</altname>, <altname>veriscope</altname>, <altname>vitagraph</altname>,

CIRCULARIZE CIRCULAR a leaflet

Circumambient

CIRCUMAMBULATE To walk round about.

Circumambulate

Miracle cure, if time allows, around a point of the compass

Rhetorical evasions

Ways of talking round Milton? C-c-curious work

'... put a girdle round the earth ...'

Went Magellan one farther

Went completely around

Circumnavigate

Drake, for one

Phileas Fogg, for one

One of the great all-rounders

An inscription written around anything.

CIRCUMSPECTION Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.