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

  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
  • conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
  • concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
  • concurrent lisp — (language)   A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
  • confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
  • conscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
  • consentaneously — In a consentaneous manner.
  • consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • constable glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century, having a heavy foot, a tall body, and a capacity of 1 quart (0.946 liters).
  • contact details — the information required to contact someone, such as an address or telephone number
  • container class — (programming)   A class whose instances are collections of other objects. Examples include arrays, lists, queues and stacks. A container class typically provides methods such as count, insert, delete and search.
  • contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
  • contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
  • contention slot — (networking)   In a communication system where only one node at a time may transmit successfully on a shared channel, the contention slot or contention period is the time a node must wait before it can be sure that no other node's transmission has collided with its transmission. If node A starts to transmit at time t0 and then another node starts to transmit just before it recieves A's transmission at time t0 + T, then the transmissions will collide but node A will not detect the collision until time t0 + 2T. The contention slot, 2T, for nodes seperated by the maximum propagation delay thus determines how much data the node must be prepared to re-transmit in the event of a collision.
  • contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualizing — Present participle of contextualize.
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • contralaterally — In a contralateral manner.
  • contrapropeller — one of two propellers, usually attached to a ship or aircraft, which rotates in the opposite direction to the other
  • control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
  • controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
  • controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
  • controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.
  • controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • convection cell — a distinct volume of circulating fluid, in a fluid medium under gravity, that is heated from below and cooled from above: usually found in large groupings.
  • conventionalise — Alternative spelling of conventionalize.
  • conventionalism — advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
  • conventionalist — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
  • conventionality — the quality or characteristic of being conventional, esp in behaviour, thinking, etc
  • conventionalize — to make conventional
  • conventual mass — the Mass celebrated daily in a convent church for all members of the conventual community.
  • converted steel — cement steel.
  • convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • copper sulphate — a copper salt found naturally as chalcanthite and made by the action of sulphuric acid on copper oxide. It usually exists as blue crystals of the pentahydrate that form a white anhydrous powder when heated: used as a mordant, in electroplating, and in plant sprays. Formula: CuSO4
  • coriolis effect — a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the Earth when observed from the Earth. The deflection is due to the Earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • correcting lens — a thin lens used to correct spherical aberration introduced by the spherical mirror in certain optical systems
  • correlativeness — The state or quality of being correlative.
  • correspondently — in a correspondent manner
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
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