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15-letter words containing c, e, r, a, t, o

  • inconsideration — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
  • insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
  • inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
  • intercolonially — in an intercolonial manner
  • intercomparison — mutual comparison
  • intercorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • interjaculatory — expressed by interjaculating
  • interjectionary — Interjectional.
  • interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
  • introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
  • 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.
  • ironstone china — a tough durable earthenware
  • irritable colon — any combination of common disturbances of the bowel, as diarrhea or constipation, occurring with abdominal pain, sometimes accompanied by psychological stress. Abbreviation: IBS.
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
  • jack-o'-lantern — a hollowed pumpkin with openings cut to represent human eyes, nose, and mouth and in which a candle or other light may be placed, traditionally made for display at Halloween.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • juice extractor — device: squeezes juice from fruit
  • 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.
  • kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • kronecker delta — a function of two variables, i and j, which equals 1 when the variables have the same value, i = j, and equals 0 when the variables have different values, i ≠ j.
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • laptop computer — portable computer
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
  • lateran council — any of the five ecumenical councils (1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, 1512–17) held in the Lateran Palace.
  • latino-american — an American who is of Latin-American or Spanish origin
  • lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • little colorado — a river flowing NW from E Arizona to the E edge of the Grand Canyon, where it flows into the Colorado River. 315 miles (507 km) long.
  • little corporal — (Napoleon Bonaparte"the Little Corporal") 1769–1821, French general born in Corsica: emperor of France 1804–15.
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
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