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15-letter words containing c, e, m

  • indirect demand — the secondary demand for labour, raw materials, premises etc which arises from the direct demand for goods
  • inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
  • insurance claim — request for insurance to be paid
  • insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
  • intellectualism — devotion to intellectual pursuits.
  • interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
  • interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra
  • interchangement — the act of interchanging
  • intercomparison — mutual comparison
  • interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
  • internment camp — a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • irreconcilement — the quality or state of being unreconciled
  • isoamyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used in flavorings, perfumery, and as a solvent. Compare banana oil (def 1).
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • jerusalem cross — a cross whose four arms are each capped with a crossbar and often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • joint committee — a committee appointed from both houses of a bicameral legislature in order to reach a compromise on their differences concerning a particular issue.
  • judicial murder — the unjustified execution of the death penalty
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • kamikaze packet — Christmas tree packet
  • karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
  • keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
  • lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
  • laptop computer — portable computer
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • latino-american — an American who is of Latin-American or Spanish origin
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
  • levi-montalciniRita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • lexical meaning — the meaning of a base morpheme.
  • 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.
  • lithium citrate — a white crystalline solid sometimes used in the treatment of manic-depressive illness and mania. Formula: Li3C6H5O7
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
  • low-maintenance — requiring little attention or upkeep
  • lower criticism — a form of Biblical criticism having as its purpose the reconstruction of the original texts of the books of the Bible.
  • lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • lzh compression — (algorithm)   (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
  • lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
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