15-letter words containing c, h, o, l, a
- nonexchangeable — capable of being exchanged.
- nonhierarchical — Classified or arranged so that a group or person has the same authority as everyone else; not hierarchical.
- nonmathematical — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.
- nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
- ochlocratically — In an ochlocratic way.
- old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- once in a while — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
- ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
- ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- orthodontically — from an orthodontic point of view
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- palaeoanthropic — relating to palaeoanthropology
- paleoencephalon — paleencephalon.
- paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
- paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
- paraheliotropic — (of leaves) turning away from light; sun-avoiding
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- pavel petrovich — Paul I (def 2).
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- perchloric acid — a colorless, syrupy hygroscopic liquid, HClO 4 , an acid of chlorine containing one more oxygen atom than chloric acid: used chiefly as a reagent in analytical chemistry.
- perchloroethane — hexachloroethane.
- pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- 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.
- philanthropical — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- philosophically — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
- phototactically — in a phototactic manner
- phototropically — in a phototropic manner
- phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
- 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.
- phytochemically — in a phytochemical manner
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- play havoc with — bring chaos to
- pleochroic halo — a dark-colored, microscopic ring around a minute radioactive particle in certain mineral crystals, used in estimating the age of the rocks containing these crystals
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner