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15-letter words containing c, h, e, s, l, o

  • holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
  • homeostatically — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
  • homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
  • horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
  • interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
  • ionospherically — by the ionosphere
  • kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
  • low-cholesterol — containing little dietary cholesterol
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • 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.
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • methylcellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
  • microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • natal horoscope — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
  • nephrosclerosis — (pathology) arteriosclerosis of the renal arteries.
  • neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
  • new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • nucleosynthesis — the formation of new atomic nuclei by nuclear reactions, thought to occur in the interiors of stars and in the early stages of development of the universe.
  • nucleosynthetic — Of or pertaining to nucleosynthesis.
  • oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
  • old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
  • orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
  • organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
  • paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
  • peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
  • peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
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