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15-letter words containing c, h, i, t, l

  • chitlin circuit — a group of clubs and theaters featuring black performers and intended to appeal to black people.
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • chorioallantoic — relating to the chorioallantois
  • chorioallantois — the membrane of a fetus that is formed by the merging of the allantois and the chorion
  • christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
  • christmas carol — a joyful hymn or religious song, celebrating the birth of Christ
  • chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
  • church militant — those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
  • communion cloth — corporal3 .
  • comptrollership — controller (def 1).
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • corticothalamic — Of or pertaining to the cortex and the thalamus.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
  • cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
  • cyanoethylation — the act of introducing a cyano-ethyl group into a compound
  • cycling clothes — special clothes, such as lycra shorts, suitable for cycling in
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
  • dichroic filter — an optical colour filter operating on the principle of wave interference between closely spaced reflecting surfaces, rather than by colour absorption
  • direct lighting — lighting in which most of the light is cast directly from the fixture or source to the illumined area.
  • disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
  • dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
  • divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electrochemical — (chemistry) of, or relating to a chemical reaction brought about by electricity.
  • electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
  • electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
  • electrothermics — the study of electricity and heat, or of electrically generated heat
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