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15-letter words containing a, c, l, o, s

  • cooley's anemia — a form of thalassemia characterized by severe anemia, growth retardation, etc. and usually resulting in death at an early age: the genes causing this condition are inherited from both parents
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • copper sulphate — a copper salt found naturally as chalcanthite and made by the action of sulphuric acid on copper oxide. It usually exists as blue crystals of the pentahydrate that form a white anhydrous powder when heated: used as a mordant, in electroplating, and in plant sprays. Formula: CuSO4
  • corona borealis — a small compact constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Boötes and Hercules
  • corpora callosa — corpus callosum
  • 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.
  • corpus callosum — the band of white fibres that connects the cerebral hemispheres in mammals
  • correlativeness — The state or quality of being correlative.
  • cosmopolitanism — free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
  • cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
  • cost of capital — The cost of capital is how much it costs to borrow money with interest or issue securities to raise money.
  • costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
  • cottonseed meal — the residue of cottonseed kernels from which oil has been extracted, used as fodder or fertilizer
  • could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
  • counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • counterfactuals — Plural form of counterfactual.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
  • couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
  • court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
  • cover all bases — take full precautions
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • criminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of criminalization.
  • crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
  • crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
  • cross assembler — an assembler that runs on a computer other than the one for which it assembles programs
  • cross of valour — the highest Canadian award for bravery
  • cross tolerance — the resistance to one or more effects of a substance because of tolerance to a pharmacologically similar substance: a cross-tolerance of some alcoholics to anesthetics.
  • cross-assembler — An assembler which runs on one type of processor and produces machine code for another. There is a set of 6502, 68xx and Zilog Z80 and 8085 cross-assemblers in C by <[email protected]> and Alan R. Baldwin. They run under MS-DOS and could be compiled to run under Unix and on the Amiga and Atari ST. See also fas.
  • cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
  • cross-tolerance — the resistance to one or more effects of a substance because of tolerance to a pharmacologically similar substance: a cross-tolerance of some alcoholics to anesthetics.
  • crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
  • crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
  • crossover value — the percentage of offspring showing recombination among the total offspring of a given cross. It indicates the amount of crossing over that has occurred and therefore the relative positions of the genes on the chromosomes
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • 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
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • crystallisation — (British) alternative spelling of crystallization.
  • crystallization — Crystallization is the process in which crystals are formed either from something that has been melted or from a solution.
  • crystallography — the science concerned with the formation, properties, and structure of crystals
  • cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • cyclical stocks — shares which are highly sensitive to the business cycle and affected by the performance of the economy
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
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