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15-letter words containing c, o, l, d, i, t

  • encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
  • functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
  • hydropathically — in a hydropathic manner; in a manner relating to hydropathy
  • hydrostatically — In a hydrostatic manner.
  • ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
  • ichthyodorylite — a fossilised fish-spine
  • idiosyncratical — Alternative form of idiosyncratic.
  • ill-conditioned — in a surly or bad mood, state, etc.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • 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
  • intramyocardial — Into or within the myocardium.
  • iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • 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.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • 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
  • little colorado — a river flowing NW from E Arizona to the E edge of the Grand Canyon, where it flows into the Colorado River. 315 miles (507 km) long.
  • locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
  • melamine-coated — covered with an outer layer of melamine
  • methyl chloride — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Cl, used chiefly as a refrigerant, as a local anesthetic, and as a methylating agent in organic synthesis.
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
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