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

  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • food processing — transforming raw materials into food
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • get one's cards — to be told to leave one's employment
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
  • gross indecency — sexual offence
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
  • horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • identifications — Plural form of identification.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • 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.
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • injudiciousness — The state or condition of being injudicious.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • 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.
  • microdissection — dissection performed under a microscope.
  • miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
  • monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
  • monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
  • newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • non-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • non-compromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
  • non-condensable — capable of being condensed.
  • non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • noncommissioned — not commissioned, applied especially to military officers, as sergeants and corporals, ranking below warrant officer.
  • nonconsolidated — (financial) Including the financial data of only the parent company.
  • nondiscriminate — Not discriminate.
  • nonencapsulated — not encapsulated
  • noninsecticidal — absent or free of insecticide
  • normally-closed — Normally-closed switch contacts are in a closed state at rest.
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