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

  • chemotaxonomist — a specialist in the field of chemotaxonomy
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chest infection — a respiratory infection mainly affecting the chest
  • chest protector — a protective pad worn over the chest by a catcher or umpire to shield the body from foul tips.
  • chestnut bottle — an American glass bottle or flask of the 19th century, having slightly flattened sides.
  • chicago heights — a city in NE Illinois, S of Chicago.
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • children's home — care institution for minors
  • children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cholecystectomy — surgical removal of the gall bladder
  • cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • cholecystostomy — a medical cut or opening into the gall bladder to enable a drainage tube to be put in place
  • choledochostomy — formation of a temporary opening through the abdominal wall into the common bile duct, usually to remove stones.
  • cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
  • chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chorioallantois — the membrane of a fetus that is formed by the merging of the allantois and the chorion
  • chorioretinitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the choroid and retina of the eye.
  • christcross-row — the alphabet.
  • 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
  • chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
  • chronic disease — long-term illness
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • chudskoye ozero — Russian name of Peipus.
  • church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • communist china — China, People's Republic of.
  • community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
  • comparison-shop — to compare prices and quality of competing merchandise.
  • compotationship — the state of being a compotator or drinking companion
  • comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
  • comprehensivize — to make (an educational system) comprehensive
  • comptrollership — controller (def 1).
  • computer ethics — (philosophy)   Ethics is the field of study that is concerned with questions of value, that is, judgments about what human behaviour is "good" or "bad". Ethical judgments are no different in the area of computing from those in any other area. Computers raise problems of privacy, ownership, theft, and power, to name but a few. Computer ethics can be grounded in one of four basic world-views: Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, or Existentialism. Idealists believe that reality is basically ideas and that ethics therefore involves conforming to ideals. Realists believe that reality is basically nature and that ethics therefore involves acting according to what is natural. Pragmatists believe that reality is not fixed but is in process and that ethics therefore is practical (that is, concerned with what will produce socially-desired results). Existentialists believe reality is self-defined and that ethics therefore is individual (that is, concerned only with one's own conscience). Idealism and Realism can be considered ABSOLUTIST worldviews because they are based on something fixed (that is, ideas or nature, respectively). Pragmatism and Existentialism can be considered RELATIVIST worldviews because they are based or something relational (that is, society or the individual, respectively). Thus ethical judgments will vary, depending on the judge's world-view. Some examples: First consider theft. Suppose a university's computer is used for sending an e-mail message to a friend or for conducting a full-blown private business (billing, payroll, inventory, etc.). The absolutist would say that both activities are unethical (while recognising a difference in the amount of wrong being done). A relativist might say that the latter activities were wrong because they tied up too much memory and slowed down the machine, but the e-mail message wasn't wrong because it had no significant effect on operations. Next consider privacy. An instructor uses her account to acquire the cumulative grade point average of a student who is in a class which she instructs. She obtained the password for this restricted information from someone in the Records Office who erroneously thought that she was the student's advisor. The absolutist would probably say that the instructor acted wrongly, since the only person who is entitled to this information is the student and his or her advisor. The relativist would probably ask why the instructor wanted the information. If she replied that she wanted it to be sure that her grading of the student was consistent with the student's overall academic performance record, the relativist might agree that such use was acceptable. Finally, consider power. At a particular university, if a professor wants a computer account, all she or he need do is request one but a student must obtain faculty sponsorship in order to receive an account. An absolutist (because of a proclivity for hierarchical thinking) might not have a problem with this divergence in procedure. A relativist, on the other hand, might question what makes the two situations essentially different (e.g. are faculty assumed to have more need for computers than students? Are students more likely to cause problems than faculty? Is this a hold-over from the days of "in loco parentis"?).
  • connoisseurship — a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
  • conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
  • consonant shift — a change, or a set of connected changes, in the articulation of consonants in any language or family of languages
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