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15-letter words containing c, o, m, e, n, s

  • hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
  • horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
  • human resources — (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
  • hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
  • image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
  • impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
  • incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
  • inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
  • intercomparison — mutual comparison
  • 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.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
  • lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
  • lzh compression — (algorithm)   (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
  • lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
  • mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • 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.
  • menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
  • mesh connection — (in a polyphase system) an arrangement in which the end of each phase is connected to the beginning of the next, forming a ring, each junction being connected to a terminal
  • microaggression — a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype: microaggressions such as "I don't see you as black.".
  • microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
  • microcontinents — Plural form of microcontinent.
  • microdissection — dissection performed under a microscope.
  • microenterprise — A business operating on a very small scale, especially one with a sole proprietor and fewer than six employees.
  • microinjections — Plural form of microinjection.
  • microprocessing — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.
  • misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly
  • misbecomingness — the characteristic or state of being unbecoming or unattractive
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
  • mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
  • miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • misrecollection — the act or power of recollecting, or recalling to mind; remembrance.
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
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