15-letter words containing c, o, n, s, u
- intussusception — a taking within.
- islands council — (in Scotland since 1975) any of the three divisions (Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles) into which the Scottish islands are divided for purposes of local government
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- kissing cousins — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
- 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.
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- marcus antonius — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- masculinization — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- 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
- microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- miscalculations — Plural form of miscalculation.
- miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
- mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
- misconstruction — wrong construction; misinterpretation: to put a misconstruction upon an action.
- monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
- monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
- mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
- motor insurance — insurance for a motor vehicle such as a car, which provides protection against loss in the event of an accident, theft, etc
- mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
- mountain rescue — search and rescue conducted on a mountain, for example of someone who has fallen, got lost, etc
- mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
- mucosanguineous — containing or made up of blood and mucus
- mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- muscat and oman — former name of Oman.
- mushroom anchor — a stockless anchor having a bowlike head, used chiefly for semipermanent moorings.
- narcotics squad — a department of the police which investigates crimes concerning illegal drugs
- necessitousness — The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.
- neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
- neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
- neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
- neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.