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15-letter words containing ter

  • counterquestion — a question which acts as a reply to another question
  • counterreaction — a reaction against an initial action
  • counterreformer — a reformer who acts in opposition to another reform
  • counterresponse — a response or reply which opposes or answers a previous response
  • counterrotating — (of two corresponding or similar moving parts) rotating in opposite directions: counterrotating propellers.
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
  • countersubjects — Plural form of countersubject.
  • countertendency — an opposite tendency
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • country western — country music
  • covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
  • cpu info center — (processor)   An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
  • crispy critters — (jargon)   (Or "Crispy Crittered". From the "Post" breakfast cereal of the same name) hardware which is fried or toast.
  • critter cuisine — food consisting of the flesh of insects, eaten as a delicacy in some parts of the world
  • crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
  • crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
  • culture pattern — a group of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
  • current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
  • curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
  • cytophotometers — Plural form of cytophotometer.
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
  • deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
  • dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • determinability — the quality of being determinable
  • determinateness — The state or quality of being determinate.
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • deuterium oxide — heavy water.
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • diastereoisomer — a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer
  • dichroic filter — an optical colour filter operating on the principle of wave interference between closely spaced reflecting surfaces, rather than by colour absorption
  • diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
  • disaster relief — financial or physical help provided to people or areas hit by a disaster
  • disinterestedly — unbiased by personal interest or advantage; not influenced by selfish motives: a disinterested decision by the referee.
  • disintermediate — (business, banking, finance) To carry out disintermediation.
  • distilled water — water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.
  • domain squatter — (web)   An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
  • doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • easter islander — a native or inhabitant of Easter Island
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • encounter group — a group of people who meet in order to develop self-awareness and mutual understanding by openly expressing their feelings, by confrontation, physical contact, etc
  • enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
  • ennerdale water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • enter the lists — to engage in a conflict, controversy, etc
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