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15-letter words containing c, l, e

  • commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
  • commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
  • common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
  • common-sensible — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
  • communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
  • commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
  • compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • compatibilities — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
  • compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
  • complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
  • complementarily — In a complementary manner.
  • complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
  • complementation — In linguistics, a complementation pattern of a verb, noun, or adjective is the patterns that typically follow it.
  • complementizers — Plural form of complementizer.
  • complete theory — (logic)   An abstract logical theory in which all true statements have formal proofs within the theory.
  • completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
  • complex-machine — Older Use. an automobile or airplane. a typewriter.
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
  • comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
  • compressed slip — (networking)   (CSLIP) VanJacobsen TCP header compression. A version of SLIP using compression. CSLIP has no effect on the data portion of the packet and has nothing to do with compression by modem. It does reduce the TCP header from 40 bytes to 7 bytes, a noticeable difference when doing telnet with lots of little packets. CSLIP has no effect on UDP, only TCP.
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • compromise rail — a rail for linking rails having different sections.
  • comptrollership — controller (def 1).
  • concealed-carry — the practice of carrying a concealed gun or other weapon in public.
  • conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
  • conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
  • concern oneself — to busy oneself (with, about, over, in something); take an interest
  • concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
  • concurrent lisp — (language)   A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
  • condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
  • cone of silence — a space, in the shape of an inverted cone, above a radio beacon, in which there is a sharp reduction in the intensity of transmitted signals.
  • conference call — A conference call is a phone call in which more than two people take part.
  • confessionalism — the belief that a religion, esp Christianity, should have a set of essential doctrines to which members of that religion must adhere
  • confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
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