15-letter words that end in t
- colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
- community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
- comparison test — a comparison of particular qualities or traits in two or more things in order to get a measurable assessment
- composite print — a photograph characterized by overlapping or juxtaposed images resulting from a multiple exposure or the combining of negatives (composite print)
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- compton-burnett — Dame Ivy. 1884–1969, English novelist. Her novels include Men and Wives (1931) and Mother and Son (1955)
- concert pianist — a person who earns a living from giving solo performances on the piano in front of audiences
- confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
- confidence test — (testing) Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
- conscriptionist — a person who is in favour of conscription
- conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
- consonant shift — a change, or a set of connected changes, in the articulation of consonants in any language or family of languages
- constitutionist — a constitutionalist
- constructionist — a person who interprets constitutional law in a certain way, esp strictly
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
- contention slot — (networking) In a communication system where only one node at a time may transmit successfully on a shared channel, the contention slot or contention period is the time a node must wait before it can be sure that no other node's transmission has collided with its transmission. If node A starts to transmit at time t0 and then another node starts to transmit just before it recieves A's transmission at time t0 + T, then the transmissions will collide but node A will not detect the collision until time t0 + 2T. The contention slot, 2T, for nodes seperated by the maximum propagation delay thus determines how much data the node must be prepared to re-transmit in the event of a collision.
- control account — an account to which are posted the debit and credit totals of other accounts, usually in preparation of financial statements
- conventionalist — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- conversationist — Someone skilled in the art of conversations.
- corday d'armont — (Marie Anne) Charlotte [muh-ree an shahr-luh t;; French ma-ree an shar-lawt] /məˈri æn ˈʃɑr lət;; French maˈri an ʃarˈlɔt/ (Show IPA), 1768–93, French Revolutionary heroine who assassinated Marat.
- coriolis effect — a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the Earth when observed from the Earth. The deflection is due to the Earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
- corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
- counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
- counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
- counterirritant — an agent that causes a superficial irritation of the skin and thereby relieves inflammation of deep structures
- countermovement — the act, process, or result of moving.
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- crush-resistant — not being easily creased
- crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
- cryptozoologist — an expert in cryptozoology
- currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
- current account — A current account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
- cutthroat trout — a game fish (Salmo clarki) with a reddish patch under the jaw, usually found in high mountain streams near the NW North American coast
- cytotrophoblast — the thickened, inner part of the mammalian placenta nearest to the fetus, covering the chorion during early pregnancy
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- day in, day out — If you say that something happens day in, day out or day in and day out, you mean that it happens regularly over a long period of time.
- day of judgment — Judgment Day
- dead-end street — a street blocked at one end
- deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
- defined-benefit — denoting an occupational pension scheme that guarantees a specified payout, usually based on an employee's final salary and years of service
- defining moment — a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.
- definitive host — the organism on or in which a parasite lives in the adult stage
- degenerationist — a person who believes in the evolutionary decline of a species
- density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- descaling agent — something intended for use removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.