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

  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
  • chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • charlotte russe — a cold dessert made in a mould with sponge fingers enclosing a mixture of whipped cream, custard, etc
  • chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
  • chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
  • chestnut bottle — an American glass bottle or flask of the 19th century, having slightly flattened sides.
  • child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
  • chitlin circuit — a group of clubs and theaters featuring black performers and intended to appeal to black people.
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • church militant — those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.
  • circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
  • circularization — to circulate (a letter, memorandum, etc.).
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumlocutious — Circumlocutional.
  • circumstantials — incidentals; details
  • circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • city councilman — a member of a city council
  • ciudad trujillo — former name (1936–61) of Santo Domingo.
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • class structure — social hierarchy
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
  • cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
  • cluster college — a small residential college affiliated with a university but semi-independent and specializing in one field of study.
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • collective noun — A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • colour contrast — the change in the appearance of a colour surrounded by another colour; for example, grey looks bluish if surrounded by yellow
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • colouristically — in a colouristic manner
  • colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
  • communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • communicational — relating to or characterized by communication
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communion cloth — corporal3 .
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
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