15-letter words containing ns
- categorizations — Plural form of categorization.
- chairpersonship — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
- chanson d'amour — love song.
- charles dickens — Charles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
- 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.
- chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
- chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
- chintz curtains — curtains made of chintz
- circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
- circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
- class-conscious — Someone who is class-conscious is very aware of the differences between the various classes of people in society, and often has a strong feeling of belonging to a particular class.
- classifications — Plural form of classification.
- coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
- coconsciousness — the state or position of being coconscious
- coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
- coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- common-sensible — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
- company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
- compotationship — the state of being a compotator or drinking companion
- comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
- comprehensivize — to make (an educational system) comprehensive
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- congratulations — You say 'Congratulations' to someone in order to congratulate them on something nice that has happened to them or something good that they have done.
- conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
- conscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- consciousnesses — Plural form of consciousness.
- conscriptionist — a person who is in favour of conscription
- consecratedness — the state of being consecrated
- consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
- consentaneously — In a consentaneous manner.
- consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
- conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
- conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
- considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- consonant shift — a change, or a set of connected changes, in the articulation of consonants in any language or family of languages
- conspicuousness — Openness or exposure to the view; a state of being clearly visible.
- constable glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century, having a heavy foot, a tall body, and a capacity of 1 quart (0.946 liters).
- constant dollar — a dollar valued according to its purchasing power in an arbitrarily set year and then adjusted for price changes in other years so that real purchasing power can be compared by giving prices as they would presumably be in the base year.
- constantine vii — known as Porphyrogenitus. 905–59 ad, Byzantine emperor (913–59) and scholar: his writings are an important source for Byzantine history
- constitutionals — Plural form of constitutional.
- constitutionist — a constitutionalist
- 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.
- consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation