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15-letter words containing c, u, l, e

  • extrajudicially — Outside of the legal system.
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • fault tolerance — (architecture)   1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
  • feature article — a feature article in a newspaper or magazine deals in depth with a topic or person
  • fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
  • fuel efficiency — the (least) amount of fuel used in proportion to the number of miles travelled
  • full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
  • functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
  • gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
  • gluconeogenesis — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
  • gluconeogenetic — Of or pertaining to gluconeogenesis.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • half-successful — achieving or having achieved success.
  • hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
  • hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
  • horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • hull efficiency — the ratio of the quantity of work required to tow a certain hull at a given speed to that required to drive it with a certain propeller: used in propeller design.
  • hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
  • hypercalcinuria — Condition of high levels of calcium in the urine as caused by high levels of bone resorption seen in osteoporosis or hyperthyroidism.
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
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