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15-letter words containing c, a, r, u, l

  • charlotte russe — a cold dessert made in a mould with sponge fingers enclosing a mixture of whipped cream, custard, etc
  • chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
  • chaulmoogra oil — a brownish-yellow oil or soft fat expressed from the seeds of a chaulmoogra tree, used formerly in the treatment of leprosy and skin diseases.
  • chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
  • chorale prelude — a composition for organ using a chorale as a cantus firmus or as the basis for variations
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
  • 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
  • church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
  • churchill falls — a waterfall in E Canada, in SW Labrador on the Churchill River: site of one of the largest hydroelectric power projects in the world. Height: 75 m (245 ft)
  • circular buffer — (programming)   An area of memory used to store a continuous stream of data by starting again at the beginning of the buffer after reaching the end. A circular buffer is usually written by one process and read by another. Separate read and write pointers are maintained. These are not allowed to pass each other otherwise either unread data would be overwritten or invalid data would be read. A circuit may implement a hardware circular buffer.
  • circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
  • circularization — to circulate (a letter, memorandum, etc.).
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • 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.
  • ciudad trujillo — former name (1936–61) of Santo Domingo.
  • 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.
  • class structure — social hierarchy
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
  • clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • colour contrast — the change in the appearance of a colour surrounded by another colour; for example, grey looks bluish if surrounded by yellow
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • colour-reversal — (of film or photographic paper) designed to produce a positive image directly from a positive subject
  • colouristically — in a colouristic manner
  • colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • congratulations — You say 'Congratulations' to someone in order to congratulate them on something nice that has happened to them or something good that they have done.
  • control account — an account to which are posted the debit and credit totals of other accounts, usually in preparation of financial statements
  • control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
  • 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
  • corpus callosum — the band of white fibres that connects the cerebral hemispheres in mammals
  • could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
  • coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
  • counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
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