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15-letter words containing c, l, e, m, n

  • electronic mail — (messaging)   (e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one computer user to another, often through computer networks and/or via modems over telephone lines. A message, especially one following the common RFC 822 standard, begins with several lines of headers, followed by a blank line, and the body of the message. Most e-mail systems now support the MIME standard which allows the message body to contain "attachments" of different kinds rather than just one block of plain ASCII text. It is conventional for the body to end with a signature. Headers give the name and electronic mail address of the sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent and a subject. There are many other headers which may get added by different message handling systems during delivery. The message is "composed" by the sender, usually using a special program - a "Mail User Agent" (MUA). It is then passed to some kind of "Message Transfer Agent" (MTA) - a program which is responsible for either delivering the message locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another host. MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using SMTP. The message is eventually delivered to the recipient's mailbox - normally a file on his computer - from where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may or may not be the same MUA as used by the sender). Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail". The word is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaning "to send (something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my report)"). The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass noun. Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French "emmailleure", network. Also, "email" is German for enamel.
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • entomologically — In terms of entomology.
  • etesian climate — a climate having sunny, hot, dry summers and rainy winters.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • filemaker, inc. — (company)   The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
  • galvanomagnetic — of or relating to the creation of an electromagnetic field within a conductor, as a metal, or a semiconductor through which an electric current is passed.
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • glycaemic index — an index indicating the effects of various foods on blood sugar. Fast-releasing foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly are high on the index, while slow-releasing foods, at the bottom of the index, give a slow but sustained release of sugar
  • grammaticalness — (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • hip replacement — a surgical procedure involving replacing the hip joint with an artificial implant
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
  • identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
  • implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incrementalists — Plural form of incrementalist.
  • insurance claim — request for insurance to be paid
  • intellectualism — devotion to intellectual pursuits.
  • interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
  • interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra
  • irreconcilement — the quality or state of being unreconciled
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • latino-american — an American who is of Latin-American or Spanish origin
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • lexical meaning — the meaning of a base morpheme.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
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