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

  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
  • social distance — the extent to which individuals or groups are removed from or excluded from participating in one another's lives.
  • social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • society islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific: administratively part of French Polynesia; consists of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands; became a French protectorate in 1843 and a colony in 1880. Pop: 214 445 (2002). Area: 1595 sq km (616 sq miles)
  • soft-focus lens — a lens designed to produce an image that is uniformly very slightly out of focus: typically used for portrait work
  • solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
  • solid injection — injection of fuel into an internal-combustion engine without an air blast.
  • source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
  • special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
  • special session — a session, as of a legislature or council, called to meet in addition to those held regularly.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • student council — a representative body composed chiefly of students chosen by their classmates to organize social and extracurricular activities and to participate in the government of a school or college.
  • subintellection — an implication that is more or less understood
  • succinylcholine — a drug, C14H30N2O4, used primarily as a muscle relaxant, produced by the esterization of succinic acid with choline
  • supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • techno-thriller — a suspense novel in which the manipulation of sophisticated technology, as of aircraft or weapons systems, plays a prominent part.
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the common weal — the good of society
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • to lose contact — If you lose contact with someone who you have been friendly with, you no longer see them, speak to them, or write to them.
  • tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
  • torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • trichloroethane — a volatile nonflammable colourless liquid with low toxicity used for cleaning electrical apparatus and as a solvent; 1,2,3-trichloroethane. Formula: CH3CCl3
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • trochlear nerve — either one of the fourth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the superior oblique muscle of the upper part of the eyeball.
  • tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
  • ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
  • un-coincidental — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
  • un-come-at-able — not accessible
  • un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
  • una corda pedal — soft pedal (def 1).
  • uncanonicalness — the quality or condition of being uncanonical
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