15-letter words containing c, o, e, n, d
- implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
- in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
- inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
- inconsideration — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- indian licorice — rosary pea.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indirect object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, in English generally coming between the verb and the direct object and paraphrasable as the object of a preposition, usually to or for, following the direct object, as the boy in He gave the boy a book.
- indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- infoword office — (tool) A suite of applications for Unix including a word processor, spreadsheet and database.
- injudiciousness — The state or condition of being injudicious.
- intercorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
- knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
- kronecker delta — a function of two variables, i and j, which equals 1 when the variables have the same value, i = j, and equals 0 when the variables have different values, i ≠ j.
- lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
- lazaro cardenas — Lázaro [lah-sah-raw] /ˈlɑ sɑˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1970, Mexican general and political reformer: president 1934–40.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
- learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
- 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.
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- linear collider — a particle accelerator in which two beams of particles are made to collide
- lord chancellor — the highest judicial officer of the British crown: law adviser of the ministry, keeper of the great seal, presiding officer in the House of Lords, etc.
- lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
- managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- media converter — (networking) A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
- mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
- medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
- melamine-coated — covered with an outer layer of melamine
- microdissection — dissection performed under a microscope.
- mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
- miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
- moderate-income — of or relating to those with a close-to-average income within the overall population.