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15-letter words containing c, a, l, m, n, d

  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • glycaemic index — an index indicating the effects of various foods on blood sugar. Fast-releasing foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly are high on the index, while slow-releasing foods, at the bottom of the index, give a slow but sustained release of sugar
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
  • intramyocardial — Into or within the myocardium.
  • lambda-c baryon — a positively charged baryon with a mean lifetime of approximately 2.1 X 10 -13 seconds.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
  • magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
  • mandarin collar — a narrow, stand-up collar, not quite meeting at the front.
  • master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
  • medical student — trainee doctor
  • medicinal leech — a bloodsucking leech, Hirudo medicinalis, of Europe, introduced into the northeastern U.S., usually green with brown stripes, up to 4 inches (10 cm) long: once used by physicians to bleed patients.
  • medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
  • melamine-coated — covered with an outer layer of melamine
  • mental handicap — learning disability
  • meridian circle — a transit instrument provided with a graduated vertical scale, used to measure the declinations of heavenly bodies and to determine the time of meridian transits.
  • middle american — average middle-class Americans as a group, as distinguished from the rich or poor or the politically extreme.
  • middle distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
  • middle-distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • multi-channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
  • neuroectodermal — Of or pertaining to the neuroectoderm.
  • nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
  • nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
  • nonmatriculated — not matriculated, not enrolled in an institution, esp a college or university
  • nonmelodramatic — Not melodramatic.
  • normally-closed — Normally-closed switch contacts are in a closed state at rest.
  • old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
  • omnidirectional — sending or receiving signals in all directions: an omnidirectional microphone.
  • palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • planned economy — an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
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