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

  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • appalachian tea — any of various plants, as withe rod, whose leaves were used locally for tea in pioneer times
  • appendicularian — of or relating to a family of molluscs (Appendicularia) characterized by their long tail appendages
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • arabic numerals — the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the 0 (zero) that originated in India; Hindu-Arabic numerals
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
  • artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
  • ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
  • ascending scale — a scale that is rising in pitch
  • at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
  • atlantic ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atlantic-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • audience appeal — the quality of being attractive to an audience
  • authenticatable — to establish as genuine.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • balanced ticket — a slate of candidates chosen to appeal to a wide range of voters, especially by including members of large regional, ethnic, or religious groups.
  • baltic exchange — a group of companies, based in London, which engages in trading activities, esp chartering cargo vessels
  • banana republic — Small, poor countries that are politically unstable are sometimes referred to as banana republics.
  • barcelona chair — an armless, padded leather chair on a steel frame shaped like a curved X: Barcelona is a trademark for this chair
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • barycentrically — In a barycentric manner.
  • bateau neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • be in the black — If a person or an organization is in the black, they do not owe anyone any money.
  • bear animalcule — tardigrade (def 3).
  • beginner's luck — the initial good fortune or success commonly supposed to come to a person who has recently taken up a new pursuit, as a sport or game: Catching a large trout the first time you go fishing is simply beginner's luck.
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • benzal chloride — a colorless, oily liquid, C 7 H 6 Cl 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of benzaldehyde, and in the manufacture of dyes.
  • benzyl chloride — a colorless, corrosive liquid, C 7 H 7 Cl, used chiefly as an intermediate in the synthesis of benzyl compounds.
  • bessel function — one of several transcendental functions, usually represented as power series, that are solutions to a group of related differential equations.
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • billing machine — a business machine used to itemize and total customer accounts, produce bills, post account records, etc.
  • bioluminescence — the production of light by living organisms as a result of the oxidation of a light-producing substance (luciferin) by the enzyme luciferase: occurs in many marine organisms, insects such as the firefly, etc
  • biomechanically — from a biomechanical point of view
  • black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blast injection — the injection of liquid fuel directly into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine using a blast of high-pressure air to atomize the spray of fuel
  • blending center — A blending center is a place for mixing fluids, gases, and powders.
  • blenheim palace — a palace in Woodstock in Oxfordshire: built (1705–22) by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 1st Duke of Marlborough as a reward from the nation for his victory at Blenheim; gardens laid out by Henry Wise and Capability Brown; birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (1874)
  • borderline case — a person or thing that is not clearly classifiable as something
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • branchial cleft — Zoology. one of a series of slitlike openings in the walls of the pharynx between the branchial arches of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes from the pharynx to the exterior.
  • branching rules — rules that are used to break down a complex problem into several smaller problems
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
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