Table of Contents
- What is the longest word with C?
- What words that start with C?
- How many words are there that start with C?
- What are happy words that start with C?
- What is a beautiful word that starts with C?
- What 5 letter word gets shorter when you add 2 letters to it?
- What gets shorter when you add two letters to it?
- What starts with E and only has one letter?
- What starts with t end with T and has T in it Amazon?
- What begins with T ends with T and has T in it Amazon question?
- What is a six letter word that starts with t?
- What is a good word that starts with t?
- What 6 letter word starts with T and ends with I?
- What’s a five letter word that starts with t?
- What is the longest T word?
- What is a 5 letter word that starts with T and ends with E?
- What is a 5 letter word that starts with T and ends with D?
20 letter words starting with C
What is the longest word with C?
List of words with 45 letters with C
- Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. → Definition and anagrams of Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis.
- chemotherapeutically 41
- chlorofluoromethanes 37
- compartmentalization 44
- comprehensiblenesses 37
- contradistinguishing 34
- conventionalizations 41
- counterconditionings 34
- counterdemonstrating 33
5 letter words that start with C
- cabal.
- cabby.
- caber.
- cabin.
- cable.
- cabob.
- cacao.
- cacce.
How many words are there that start with C?
There are 64527 words that start with C.
What are happy words that start with C?
Charming delighting; fascinating; attractive. Chatty fond of chatting or inclined to chat; talkative and friendly. Cheerful having life or vigor or spirit; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing. Cheery showing or promoting good spirits or mood; cheerful; pleasant; lively; bright.
What is a beautiful word that starts with C?
Synonyms starting with letter C
- comely attraction, handsome, attractive. beautiful and comely.
- charming delicate, attractive, lovely. beautiful and charming.
- cute handsome, great, attractive. beautiful and cute.
- captivating attractive.
- cool.
- classy physically attractive.
- choice.
- creative property, aesthetic.
What 5 letter word gets shorter when you add 2 letters to it?
Originally Answered: What 5-letter word becomes shorter if you add 2 letters to it? Obviously, the answer is “shore” — which becomes “shorter” when you add “r” to the end and a “t” after the first “r”. Another answer is “sorte” — which becomes “shorter” (when you add “r” to the end and “h” after the “s”).
What gets shorter when you add two letters to it?
short
What starts with E and only has one letter?
What starts with “e”, ends with “e” and has one letter in it? Envelope.
What starts with t end with T and has T in it Amazon?
Amazon Quiz – What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?
- Answer : A Clock.
- Answer : Mirror.
- Answer : A hole.
- Answer : Charcoal.
What begins with T ends with T and has T in it Amazon question?
It’s teapot! The word teapot starts with the word ‘T’ and also ends with the word ‘T’. In a teapot it has tea as tea is pronounced as ‘T’. The answer is Teapot.
What is a six letter word that starts with t?
6-letter words starting with T
taatas | tabard |
---|---|
taches | tachos |
tacked | tacker |
tacket | tackey |
tackie | tackle |
What is a good word that starts with t?
Positive Words That Start With T
Tackle | Tact | Tactful |
---|---|---|
Teamwork | Temperate | Temptation |
Tenable | Tenacious | Tenancy |
Tenderhearted | Tenderness | Terrific |
Thankful | Thankfully | Thankfulness |
What 6 letter word starts with T and ends with I?
Six letter words that start with T and end with I
tahini | tamari | tatami |
---|---|---|
thyrsi | tufoli | tumuli |
What’s a five letter word that starts with t?
Five Letter Words Starting with ‘T’
- taals5
- taata5
- tabby12
- taber7
- tabes7
- tabid8
- tabis7
- tabla7
What is the longest T word?
18-letter words that start with t
- transubstantiation.
- thermoluminescence.
- thermoelectrometer.
- theophilanthropism.
- theophilanthropist.
- thoracicoabdominal.
- thiruvananthapuram.
- tetrachlorethylene.
What is a 5 letter word that starts with T and ends with E?
Five letter words starting with T and ending in E
there | these | tache |
---|---|---|
thole | those | thyme |
titre | togae | toile |
torse | torte | towie |
trice | trike | tripe |
What is a 5 letter word that starts with T and ends with D?
Five letter words starting with T and ending in D
tamed | taped | tared |
---|---|---|
tewed | third | tided |
toked | toled | toned |
treed | trend | triad |
tuned | tweed | tyned |
More from The Question & Answer (Q&A)
This is a minimised repost of a question i asked earlier. I am a beginner in C programming. I am attempting to create a Countdown program but in which the user selects eight consonants and/or vowels and has to devise the longest word from these letters. The computer will then read a dictionary file and find the longest possible words. This function is a part of the program in which I compare the countdown letters with a dictionary file.
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
int main()
{
int i, j, n;
long int n1 = 0, n2 = 0, n3 = 0, n4 = 0, n5 = 0, n6 = 0, n7 = 0, n8 = 0;
char line[9];
char exampleLetters[] = "feacnehp";
char *fileName = "D:\webster.txt"; //Dictionary file
FILE *fp = fopen(fileName, "r");
if (fp == NULL) {
printf("Error opening file!n");
}
else
{
while (!feof(fp)) {
fgets(line, 9, fp);
n = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
if (line[i] == exampleLetters[j]) n++;
}
}
if (n == 1) n1++; //These values are incremented everytime a word of that amount of letters is found i.e. n1++ when a one letter word is found
if (n == 2) n2++;
if (n == 3) n3++;
if (n == 4) n4++;
if (n == 5) n5++;
if (n == 6) n6++;
if (n == 7) n7++;
if (n == 8) n8++;
}
printf("%li %li %li %li %li %li %li %lin", n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n6, n7, n8); //This is irrelevant but just to display the amount of each number of words
}
fclose(fp);
return 1;
}
My problem is in the readFile function. I’m not sure how to compare the countdown letters with the dictionary file. I am able to count the amount of words that match with the letters. Should I read the words in and use malloc to continually allocate memory or is there a better alternative?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length.
Words may be derived naturally from the language’s roots or formed by coinage and construction. Additionally, comparisons are complicated because place names may be considered words, technical terms may be arbitrarily long, and the addition of suffixes and prefixes may extend the length of words to create grammatically correct but unused or novel words.
The length of a word may also be understood in multiple ways. Most commonly, length is based on orthography (conventional spelling rules) and counting the number of written letters. Alternate, but less common, approaches include phonology (the spoken language) and the number of phonemes (sounds).
Word | Letters | Meaning | Claim | Dispute |
---|---|---|---|---|
methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine | 189,819 | The chemical composition of titin, the largest known protein | Longest known word overall by magnitudes. Attempts to say the entire word have taken two[1] to three and a half hours.[2] | Technical; not in dictionary; whether this should actually be considered a word is disputed |
methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamyl…serine | 1,909 | The chemical name of E. coli TrpA (P0A877) | Longest published word[3] | Technical |
lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsano…pterygon | 183 | A fictional dish of food | Longest word coined by a major author,[4] the longest word ever to appear in literature[5] | Contrived nonce word; not in dictionary; Ancient Greek transliteration |
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis | 45 | The disease silicosis | Longest word in a major dictionary[6] | Contrived coinage to make it the longest word; technical, but only mentioned and never actually used in communication |
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | 34 | Unclear in source work, has been cited as a nonsense word | Made popular in the Mary Poppins film and musical[7] | Contrived coinage |
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism | 30 | A hereditary medical disorder | Longest non-contrived word in a major dictionary[8] | Technical |
antidisestablishmentarianism | 28 | The political position of opposing disestablishment | Longest non-contrived and nontechnical word[9] | Not all dictionaries accept it due to lack of usage.[10] |
honorificabilitudinitatibus | 27 | The state of being able to achieve honors | Longest word in Shakespeare’s works; longest word in the English language featuring alternating consonants and vowels[11] | Latin |
Major dictionaries
The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters), a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles,[12] specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis. The word was deliberately coined to be the longest word in English, and has since been used[citation needed] in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.[6]
The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary does not contain antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary is electroencephalographically (27 letters).[13]
The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning «nothing» and defined as «the act of estimating something as worthless»; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.[14][15][16]
Ross Eckler has noted that most of the longest English words are not likely to occur in general text, meaning non-technical present-day text seen by casual readers, in which the author did not specifically intend to use an unusually long word. According to Eckler, the longest words likely to be encountered in general text are deinstitutionalization and counterrevolutionaries, with 22 letters each.[17]
A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is uncharacteristically, at 20 letters.[18]
The word internationalization is abbreviated «i18n», the embedded number representing the number of letters between the first and the last.[19][20][21]
Creations of long words
Coinages
In his play Assemblywomen (Ecclesiazousae), the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created a word of 171 letters (183 in the transliteration below), which describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients:
Henry Carey’s farce Chrononhotonthologos (1743) holds the opening line: «Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?»
Thomas Love Peacock put these creations into the mouth of the phrenologist Mr. Cranium in his 1816 book Headlong Hall: osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous (44 characters) and osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary (51 characters).
James Joyce made up nine 100-letter words plus one 101-letter word in his novel Finnegans Wake, the most famous of which is Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve. As it appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word. Sylvia Plath made mention of it in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, when the protagonist was reading Finnegans Wake.
«Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious», the 34-letter title of a song from the movie Mary Poppins, does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is «a word that you say when you don’t know what to say.» The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman.
Agglutinative constructions
The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes. This is sometimes referred to as agglutinative construction. This process can create arbitrarily long words: for example, the prefixes pseudo (false, spurious) and anti (against, opposed to) can be added as many times as desired. More familiarly, the addition of numerous «great»s to a relative, such as «great-great-great-great-grandparent», can produce words of arbitrary length. In musical notation, an 8192nd note may be called a semihemidemisemihemidemisemihemidemisemiquaver.
Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction.
Technical terms
A number of scientific naming schemes can be used to generate arbitrarily long words.
The IUPAC nomenclature for organic chemical compounds is open-ended, giving rise to the 189,819-letter chemical name Methionylthreonylthreonyl…isoleucine for the protein also known as titin, which is involved in striated muscle formation. In nature, DNA molecules can be much bigger than protein molecules and therefore potentially be referred to with much longer chemical names. For example, the wheat chromosome 3B contains almost 1 billion base pairs,[22] so the sequence of one of its strands, if written out in full like Adenilyladenilylguanilylcystidylthymidyl…, would be about 8 billion letters long. The longest published word, Acetylseryltyrosylseryliso…serine, referring to the coat protein of a certain strain of tobacco mosaic virus (P03575), is 1,185 letters long, and appeared in the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Abstracts Service in 1964 and 1966.[23] In 1965, the Chemical Abstracts Service overhauled its naming system and started discouraging excessively long names. In 2011, a dictionary broke this record with a 1909-letter word describing the trpA protein (P0A877).[3]
John Horton Conway and Landon Curt Noll developed an open-ended system for naming powers of 10, in which one sexmilliaquingentsexagintillion, coming from the Latin name for 6560, is the name for 103(6560+1) = 1019683. Under the long number scale, it would be 106(6560) = 1039360.
Gammaracanthuskytodermogammarus loricatobaicalensis is sometimes cited as the longest binomial name—it is a kind of amphipod. However, this name, proposed by B. Dybowski, was invalidated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature in 1929 after being petitioned by Mary J. Rathbun to take up the case.[24]
Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis is the longest accepted binomial name for an organism. It is a bacterium found in soil collected at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (discussed below). Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides is the longest accepted binomial name for any animal, or any organism visible with the naked eye. It is a species of soldier fly.[25] The genus name Parapropalaehoplophorus (a fossil glyptodont, an extinct family of mammals related to armadillos) is two letters longer, but does not contain a similarly long species name.
Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic, at 52 letters, describing the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr. Edward Strother (1675–1737).[26] The word is composed of the following elements:
- Aequeo: equal (Latin, aequo[27])
- Salino: containing salt (Latin, salinus)
- Calcalino: calcium (Latin, calx)
- Ceraceo: waxy (Latin, cera)
- Aluminoso: alumina (Latin)
- Cupreo: from «copper»
- Vitriolic: resembling vitriol
Notable long words
Place names
The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters), which is a hill in New Zealand. The name is in the Māori language. A widely recognized version of the name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters), which appears on the signpost at the location (see the photo on this page). In Māori, the digraphs ng and wh are each treated as single letters.
In Canada, the longest place name is Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde, a township in Ontario, at 61 letters or 68 non-space characters.[28]
The 58-letter name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the name of a town on Anglesey, an island of Wales. In terms of the traditional Welsh alphabet, the name is only 51 letters long, as certain digraphs in Welsh are considered as single letters, for instance ll, ng and ch. It is generally agreed, however, that this invented name, adopted in the mid-19th century, was contrived solely to be the longest name of any town in Britain. The official name of the place is Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, commonly abbreviated to Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG.
The longest non-contrived place name in the United Kingdom which is a single non-hyphenated word is Cottonshopeburnfoot (19 letters) and the longest which is hyphenated is Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe (29 characters).
The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, a lake in Webster, Massachusetts. It means «Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds» and is sometimes facetiously translated as «you fish your side of the water, I fish my side of the water, nobody fishes the middle». The lake is also known as Webster Lake.[29] The longest hyphenated names in the U.S. are Winchester-on-the-Severn, a town in Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, a notable place in Texas history. The longest single-word town names in the U.S. are Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania and Mooselookmeguntic, Maine.
The longest official geographical name in Australia is Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya.[30] It has 26 letters and is a Pitjantjatjara word meaning «where the Devil urinates».[31]
Liechtenstein is the longest country name with single name in English. The second longest country name with single name in English is Turkmenistan. There are longer country names if one includes ones with spaces.
Personal names
Guinness World Records formerly contained a category for longest personal name used.
- From about 1975 to 1985, the recordholder was Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffvoralternwarengewissenhaftschaferswessenschafewarenwohlgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvonangreifendurchihrraubgierigfeindewelchevoralternzwolftausendjahresvorandieerscheinenwanderersteerdemenschderraumschiffgebrauchlichtalsseinursprungvonkraftgestartseinlangefahrthinzwischensternartigraumaufdersuchenachdiesternwelchegehabtbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensichundwohinderneurassevonverstandigmenschlichkeitkonntefortplanzenundsicherfreuenanlebenslanglichfreudeundruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifenvonandererintelligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischensternartigraum, Senior (746 letters), also known as Wolfe+585, Senior.
- After 1985 Guinness briefly awarded the record to a newborn girl with a longer name. The category was removed shortly afterward.
Long birth names are often coined in protest of naming laws or for other personal reasons.
- The naming law in Sweden was challenged by parents Lasse Diding and Elisabeth Hallin, who proposed the given name «Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116» for their child (pronounced [ˈǎlːbɪn], 43 characters), which was rejected by a district court in Halmstad, southern Sweden.
Words with certain characteristics of notable length
- Schmaltzed and strengthed (10 letters) appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in The Oxford English Dictionary, while scraunched and scroonched appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary; but squirrelled (11 letters) is the longest if pronounced as one syllable only (as permitted in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary at squirrel, and in Longman Pronunciation Dictionary). Schtroumpfed (12 letters) was coined by Umberto Eco, while broughammed (11 letters) was coined by William Harmon after broughamed (10 letters) was coined by George Bernard Shaw.
- Strengths is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel letter.[32]
- Euouae, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels. However, the «word» itself is simply a mnemonic consisting of the vowels to be sung in the phrase «seculorum Amen» at the end of the lesser doxology. (Although u was often used interchangeably with v, and the variant «Evovae» is occasionally used, the v in these cases would still be a vowel.)
- The longest words with no repeated letters are dermatoglyphics and uncopyrightable.[33]
- The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz.[34] There are few 7-letter words, such as «billowy» and «beefily». The longest words whose letters are in reverse alphabetical order are sponged, wronged and trollied.
- The longest words recorded in OED with each vowel only once, and in order, are abstemiously, affectiously, and tragediously (OED). Fracedinously and gravedinously (constructed from adjectives in OED) have thirteen letters; Gadspreciously, constructed from Gadsprecious (in OED), has fourteen letters. Facetiously is among the few other words directly attested in OED with single occurrences of all six vowels (counting y as a vowel).
- The longest single palindromic word in English is rotavator, another name for a rotary tiller for breaking and aerating soil.
Typed words
- The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard are tesseradecades, aftercataracts, dereverberated, dereverberates[35] and the more common but sometimes hyphenated sweaterdresses.[34] Using the right hand alone, the longest word that can be typed is johnny-jump-up, or, excluding hyphens, monimolimnion[36] and phyllophyllin.
- The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen.
- The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters). Nine-letter words include flagfalls; eight-letter words include galahads and alfalfas.
- Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be formed. [37]
- The longest words typable by alternating left and right hands are antiskepticism and leucocytozoans respectively.[34]
- On a Dvorak keyboard, the longest «left-handed» words are epopoeia, jipijapa, peekapoo, and quiaquia.[38] Other such long words are papaya, Kikuyu, opaque, and upkeep.[39] Kikuyu is typed entirely with the index finger, and so the longest one-fingered word on the Dvorak keyboard. There are no vowels on the right-hand side, and so the longest «right-handed» word is crwths.
See also
- Lipogram
- List of long species names
- List of the longest English words with one syllable
- Longest English sentence
- Longest word in French
- Longest word in Romanian
- Longest word in Spanish
- Longest word in Turkish
- Number of words in English
- Scriptio continua
- Sesquipedalianism
- Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft, longest published word in German
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Words from Letters FAQ
What Words Can I Make With These Letters?
That is the, «To be, or not to be,» question of all word games. There are usually many words you can make. Sometimes, there won’t be many at all. Just remember, sometimes it pays to make a word with fewer than the maximum number of points possible because it sets you up better for your next turn.
What Is the Longest English Word?
In the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest word is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means «the act of deeming or estimating something as worthless. Other dictionaries contain the word PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS, which is coal miners’ «black lung disease.»
If you think that’s bad, German is worse. The longest word in German is DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFFAHRTSELEKTRIZITÄTENHAUPTBETRIEBSWERKBAUUNTERBEAMTENGESELLSCHAFT. FLOCCI…, at 29 letters, and PNEUMONO …, at 45 letters, combined aren’t that long! None of these words will fit on a crossword game board. Scrabble boards are 15 letters across, so the longest word, which also doubles as the word worth the most points, possible is OXYBENPHUTAZONE. It requires eight letters already be placed, none of them on any of the three triples or the double-letter squares, and it scores 1,778 points. No one has ever achieved it.
How Do You Find Words With Letters Missing?
The best way is to use our tool. Of course, you should never use it while playing competitive games because it would count as looking up words in the Official Scrabble Player’s Dictionary prior to playing. But, if you wanted to ask yourself, «Which words from letters in my rack can I make?» during a friendly Words With Friends game, then that would not be bad form. Outside of competition, study as many words as you want using the website. It’s an invaluable training tool!
Long words (12 or more letters) that start with C are shown in the list below.
cabinetmaker, cabinetmakers, cabinetmaking
cabinetmakings, cabinetworks, caddishnesses
calamitously, calamitousness, calamitousnesses
calcification, calcifications, calculations
calibrations, calisthenics, callousnesses
callownesses, calumniating, calumniation
calumniations, camaraderies, camouflaging
cancellation, cancellations, candidnesses
candlelights, candlesticks, cannibalisms
cannibalistic, cannibalized, cannibalizes
cannibalizing, canonization, canonizations
cantankerous, cantankerously, cantankerousness
cantankerousnesses, capabilities, capacitances
capitalistic, capitalistically, capitalization
capitalizations, capitalizing, capitulating
capitulation, capitulations, captainships
captivations, carbohydrate, carbohydrates
carbonations, carburetting, carcinogenic
carcinogenics, carcinomatous, cardiographic
cardiographies, cardiographs, cardiography
cardiologies, cardiologist, cardiologists
cardiotoxicities, cardiotoxicity, cardiovascular
carefulnesses, carelessness, carelessnesses
caricaturing, caricaturist, caricaturists
carillonning, carnivorously, carnivorousness
carnivorousnesses, carpentering, cartilaginous
cartographer, cartographers, cartographies
castigations, casualnesses, catastrophes
catastrophic, catastrophically, categorically
categorization, categorizations, categorizing
caterpillars, caterwauling, catheterization
cauliflowers, cauterization, cauterizations
cautiousness, cautiousnesses, cavalierness
cavaliernesses, celebrations, cementations
censoriously, censoriousness, censoriousnesses
centerpieces, centralization, centralizations
centralizers, centralizing, centrifugally
centripetally, cerebrations, cerebrospinal
certificates, certification, certifications
chairmanning, chairmanship, chairmanships
chambermaids, championship, championships
chancelleries, chancellories, chancellorship
chancellorships, chaperonages, chaplaincies
characteristic, characteristically, characteristics
characterization, characterizations, characterize
characterized, characterizes, characterizing
chastenesses, chastisement, chastisements
chatterboxes, chauffeuring, chauvinistic
checkerboard, checkerboards, cheerfullest
cheerfulness, cheerfulnesses, cheerinesses
cheerleaders, cheerlessness, cheerlessnesses
cheesecloths, chemotherapeutic, chemotherapeutical
chemotherapies, chemotherapy, chessplayers
chieftaincies, childbearing, childishness
childishnesses, childlessness, childlessnesses
chillinesses, chiropodists, chiropractic
chiropractics, chiropractor, chiropractors
chitchatting, chivalrously, chivalrousness
chivalrousnesses, chlorambucil, chlorinating
chlorination, chlorinations, chlorinators
chloroformed, chloroforming, chlorophylls
choirmasters, cholesterols, choppinesses
choreographed, choreographer, choreographers
choreographic, choreographies, choreographing
choreographs, choreography, christenings
chronological, chronologically, chronologies
chronometers, chrysanthemum, chrysanthemums
chubbinesses, churchgoings, circularities
circulations, circumcising, circumcision
circumcisions, circumference, circumferences
circumflexes, circumlocution, circumlocutions
circumnavigate, circumnavigated, circumnavigates
circumnavigating, circumnavigation, circumnavigations
circumscribe, circumscribed, circumscribes
circumscribing, circumspection, circumspections
circumstance, circumstances, circumstantial
circumvented, circumventing, citizenships
civilization, civilizations, clairvoyance
clairvoyances, clairvoyants, clamminesses
clannishness, clannishnesses, clarification
clarifications, clarinetists, clarinettist
clarinettists, classification, classifications
claustrophobia, claustrophobias, cleanlinesses
clevernesses, cloudinesses, clownishness
clownishnesses, clumsinesses, coagulations
coarsenesses, coauthorship, coauthorships
cobblestones, coconspirator, coconspirators
codefendants, codevelopers, codeveloping
codification, codifications, codiscoverer
codiscoverers, coeducational, coeducations
coefficients, coexistences, coffeehouses
cohabitation, cohabitations, coincidences
coincidental, coinvestigator, coinvestigators
collaborated, collaborates, collaborating
collaboration, collaborations, collaborative
collaborator, collaborators, collectivism
colloquialism, colloquialisms, comanagement
comanagements, combinations, combustibilities
combustibility, commandeered, commandeering
commandments, commemorated, commemorates
commemorating, commemoration, commemorations
commemorative, commencement, commencements
commendation, commendations, commentaries
commentators, commercialize, commercialized
commercializes, commercializing, commercially
commiserated, commiserates, commiserating
commiseration, commiserations, commissaries
commissioned, commissioner, commissioners
commissioning, commonplaces, commonwealth
commonwealths, communicable, communicated
communicates, communicating, communication
communications, communicative, commutations
compactnesses, companionship, companionships
comparatively, compartments, compassionate
compatability, compatibilities, compatibility
compensating, compensation, compensations
compensatory, competencies, competitions
compilations, complacences, complacencies
complainants, complementary, complemented
complementing, completeness, completenesses
complexioned, complicating, complication
complications, complicities, complimentary
comportments, compositions, comprehended
comprehending, comprehensible, comprehension
comprehensions, comprehensive, comprehensiveness
comprehensivenesses, compressions, compromising
comptrollers, compunctions, computations
computerized, computerizes, computerizing
comradeships, comtemplated, comtemplates
comtemplating, concatenated, concatenates
concatenating, concealments, concentrated
concentrates, concentrating, concentration
concentrations, conceptualize, conceptualized
conceptualizes, conceptualizing, conceptually
conciliating, conciliation, conciliations
conciliatory, concisenesses, conclusively
concomitantly, concomitants, concordances
concurrences, concurrently, condemnation
condemnations, condensation, condensations
condescended, condescending, condescension
condescensions, conditionally, conditioners
conditioning, condominiums, confederacies
confessional, confessionals, confidential
confidentiality, configuration, configurations
confinements, confirmation, confirmations
confiscating, confiscation, confiscations
conflagration, conflagrations, conformities
confrontation, confrontations, congenialities
congeniality, conglomerate, conglomerated
conglomerates, conglomerating, conglomeration
conglomerations, congratulate, congratulated
congratulates, congratulating, congratulation
congratulations, congratulatory, congregating
congregation, congregational, congregations
congresional, congresswoman, congresswomen
conjecturing, conjugations, conjunctions
conjunctivitis, connoisseurs, connotations
conscientious, conscientiously, consciousness
consciousnesses, conscripting, conscription
conscriptions, consecrating, consecration
consecrations, consecutively, consequences
consequential, consequently, conservation
conservationist, conservationists, conservations
conservatism, conservatisms, conservative
conservatives, conservatories, conservatory
considerable, considerably, considerately
considerateness, consideratenesses, consideration
considerations, consignments, consistencies
consistently, consolidated, consolidates
consolidating, consolidation, consolidations
conspicuously, conspiracies, conspirators
constabularies, constabulary, constellation
constellations, consternation, consternations
constipating, constipation, constipations
constituents, constituting, constitution
constitutional, constitutionality, constraining
constriction, constrictions, constrictive
constructing, construction, constructions
constructive, consultation, consultations
consummating, consummation, consummations
consumptions, containments, contaminated
contaminates, contaminating, contamination
contaminations, contemplated, contemplates
contemplating, contemplation, contemplations
contemplative, contemporaries, contemporary
contemptible, contemptuous, contemptuously
contentedness, contentednesses, contentments
contiguities, contingencies, continuances
continuation, continuations, continuities
continuousities, continuousity, contraception
contraceptions, contraceptive, contraceptives
contractions, contradicted, contradicting
contradiction, contradictions, contradictory
contraindicate, contraindicated, contraindicates
contraindicating, contraptions, contrariwise
contravening, contributing, contribution
contributions, contributors, contributory
contrivances, controllable, controversial
controversies, controverted, controvertible
controverting, contumaceous, convalescence
convalescences, convalescent, convalescing
convectional, conveniences, conveniently
conventional, conventionally, convergences
convergencies, conversation, conversational
conversations, convertibles, convivialities
conviviality, convocations, convolutions
cooperatives, coordinating, coordination
coordinations, coordinators, copartnership
copartnerships, copiousnesses, copresidents
coprincipals, coproduction, coproductions
coproprietor, coproprietors, coproprietorship
coproprietorships, copublishers, copublishing
copyrighting, cordialities, corecipients
cornerstones, cornstarches, corporations
corpulencies, correctnesses, correlations
correlatives, corresponded, correspondence
correspondences, correspondent, correspondents
corresponding, corroborated, corroborates
corroborating, corroboration, corroborations
corrugations, cosignatories, cosmopolitan
cosmopolitans, costlinesses, cottonmouths
councilwoman, countenanced, countenances
countenancing, counteraccusation, counteraccusations
counteracted, counteracting, counteraggression
counteraggressions, counterargue, counterargued
counterargues, counterarguing, counterassault
counterassaults, counterattack, counterattacked
counterattacking, counterattacks, counterbalance
counterbalanced, counterbalances, counterbalancing
counterblockade, counterblockades, counterblows
countercampaign, countercampaigns, counterchallenge
counterchallenges, countercharge, countercharges
counterclaim, counterclaims, counterclockwise
countercomplaint, countercomplaints, countercoups
countercriticism, countercriticisms, counterdemand
counterdemands, counterdemonstration, counterdemonstrations
counterdemonstrator, counterdemonstrators, countereffect
countereffects, countereffort, counterefforts
counterembargo, counterembargos, counterevidence
counterevidences, counterfeited, counterfeiter
counterfeiters, counterfeiting, counterfeits
counterguerrila, counterinflationary, counterinfluence
counterinfluences, counterintrigue, counterintrigues
countermanded, countermanding, countermands
countermeasure, countermeasures, countermovement
countermovements, countermoves, counteroffer
counteroffers, counterparts, counterpetition
counterpetitions, counterploys, counterpoint
counterpoints, counterpower, counterpowers
counterpressure, counterpressures, counterpropagation
counterpropagations, counterproposal, counterproposals
counterprotest, counterprotests, counterquestion
counterquestions, counterraids, counterrallies
counterrally, counterrebuttal, counterrebuttals
counterreform, counterreforms, counterresponse
counterresponses, counterretaliation, counterretaliations
counterrevolution, counterrevolutions, countersigns
counterstrategies, counterstrategy, counterstyle
counterstyles, countersuggestion, countersuggestions
countersuing, countersuits, countertendencies
countertendency, counterterror, counterterrorism
counterterrorisms, counterterrorist, counterterrorists
counterterrors, counterthreat, counterthreats
counterthrust, counterthrusts, countertrend
countertrends, countrysides, craftinesses
craftsmanship, craftsmanships, craftsmenship
craftsmenships, crapshooters, creativities
credibilities, crestfallens, crisscrossed
crisscrosses, crisscrossing, crookednesses
crossbarring, crossbreeded, crossbreeding
crosscutting, cryptographic, cryptographies
cryptography, crystallization, crystallizations
crystallized, crystallizes, crystallizing
culminatation, culminatations, cultivatation
cultivatations, curtailments, cyclopaedias
cyclophosphamide, cyclophosphamides, cytopathological
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