15-letter words containing n, a, c, r
- charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
- check guarantee — A check guarantee is any method, usually via a plastic card, that guarantees that a payment made by check will be honored by the account holder’s bank.
- chemoattractant — a chemical substance that provokes chemotaxis, esp one that causes a bacterium to move in the direction in which its concentration is increasing
- chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
- chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
- chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
- child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
- child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
- child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
- chile con carne — chili con carne
- chili con carne — Chili con carne is a dish made from meat, with a thick sauce of tomatoes, and powdered or fresh chilies.
- chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
- chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
- chinese lantern — a collapsible lantern made of thin coloured paper
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- chinese parsley — coriander leaves used as an herb; cilantro
- chintz curtains — curtains made of chintz
- chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
- chocolate brown — a dark brown
- cholangiography — radiographic examination of the bile ducts after the introduction into them of a contrast medium
- cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
- chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- chorda tendinea — any of the tendons extending from the papillary muscles to the atrioventricular valves and preventing the valves from moving into the atria during ventricular contraction.
- chorioallantoic — relating to the chorioallantois
- chorioallantois — the membrane of a fetus that is formed by the merging of the allantois and the chorion
- choriocarcinoma — a cancer that occurs during pregnancy in the uterus
- christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
- chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
- chronic disease — long-term illness
- chronologically — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
- chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church militant — those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.
- church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- cinderella book — (publication) "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
- cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
- cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
- cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
- circularization — to circulate (a letter, memorandum, etc.).
- circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
- circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
- circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place