15-letter words containing c, l, o, n, u, s
- parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
- percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
- percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
- personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- punctiliousness — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- push one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- queen's counsel — King's Counsel.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- royal enclosure — at the Royal Ascot horse-race meeting, an area of Ascot racecourse which is reserved for the Royal Family, members, and their guests
- sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
- sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
- schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
- schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
- sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- self-accusation — a charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- senior lecturer — a university teacher who does not hold a professorship.
- silicone rubber — any of the synthetic rubbers made from silicone elastomers.
- sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
- soft-focus lens — a lens designed to produce an image that is uniformly very slightly out of focus: typically used for portrait work
- source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
- 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.
- structural iron — iron shaped for use in construction.
- 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.
- stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.