15-letter words containing a, l, n, c, i
- chronologically — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
- chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
- church militant — those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.
- church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
- 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.
- circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
- circularization — to circulate (a letter, memorandum, etc.).
- circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
- circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- circumstantials — incidentals; details
- circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
- circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
- city councilman — a member of a city council
- civilianization — the conversion from military to civilian status
- clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
- class inclusion — the relation between two classes in which all members of one class are included in the other, as in the proposition “All humans are animals.”.
- class president — the student president of a school or college class
- class-conscious — Someone who is class-conscious is very aware of the differences between the various classes of people in society, and often has a strong feeling of belonging to a particular class.
- classical latin — the form of Latin used in classical literature, especially the literary Latin of the 1st century b.c. and the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d.
- classifications — Plural form of classification.
- climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
- climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
- 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
- clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
- cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
- coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
- collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
- college station — a city in E central Texas.
- colonial animal — compound animal
- colonial office — a government body that was set up to oversee the affairs of the British Empire colonies
- colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
- colonialization — the act of bringing into subjection or subjugation by colonializing.
- colonizationist — a person who is in favour of colonization
- colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
- combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
- commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
- common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
- communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
- communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- communicational — relating to or characterized by communication
- communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host