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15-letter words containing a, e, c, i, d, l

  • cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
  • cardinal spider — a large house spider, Tegenaria parietina
  • cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
  • cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • cathedral choir — the choir, traditionally consisting of boys and men, that sings in cathedral services
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
  • channel islands — a group of islands in the English Channel, off the NW coast of France, consisting of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Brechou or Brecqhou, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and Lihou (all between them representing the British Kingdom Crown Dependencies of the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey) - the only part of the duchy of Normandy remaining to Britain - and the Roches Douvres and the Îles Chausey (which belong to France). Pop: 149 878 (2001). Area: 194 sq km (75 sq miles)
  • charles dickens — Charles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • cheval de frise — a portable obstacle, usually a sawhorse, covered with projecting spikes or barbed wire, for military use in closing a passage, breaking in a defensive wall, etc.
  • cheval-de-frise — a portable barrier of spikes, sword blades, etc, used to obstruct the passage of cavalry
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
  • christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • clinically dead — having no respiration, no heartbeat, and with no contraction of the pupils when exposed to a strong light
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • coeliac disease — a chronic intestinal disorder caused by sensitivity to the protein gliadin contained in the gluten of cereals, characterized by distention of the abdomen and frothy and pale foul-smelling stools
  • coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • collared lizard — any of several species of long-tailed iguanid lizards of the genus Crotaphytus, of central and western U.S. and northern Mexico, usually having a collar of two black bands.
  • commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
  • committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
  • completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contact details — the information required to contact someone, such as an address or telephone number
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • cordillera real — a range of the Andes, in Bolivia. Highest peak, Illimani, 21,201 feet (6462 meters).
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
  • criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
  • critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
  • crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
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