15-letter words containing c, h, i, s, o, l
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- infants' school — kindergarten.
- interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere
- kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- 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
- lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
- 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
- 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.
- masochistically — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
- microhomologous — (genetics) Exhibiting microhomology.
- microphysically — in a microphysical manner
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microsporophyll — a leaflike organ bearing microsporangia.
- military school — military academy.
- motoring school — an organization that provides driving lessons
- national school — (in Ireland) a state primary school
- nephrosclerosis — (pathology) arteriosclerosis of the renal arteries.
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- nicholas, saint — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- 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.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an 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.
- peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
- phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- philosophically — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
- phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- physical optics — the branch of optics concerned with the wave properties of light, the superposition of waves, the deviation of light from its rectilinear propagation in a manner other than that considered by geometrical optics, the interaction of light with matter, and the quantum, corpuscular aspects of light.
- physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
- physiologically — of or relating to physiology.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.