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15-letter words containing d, e, c, l, i, n

  • charles dickens — Charles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
  • chenopodium oil — a colorless or yellowish oil obtained from the seeds and leaves of Mexican tea, used chiefly in medicine as an agent for killing or expelling intestinal worms.
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • chicken-livered — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
  • child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
  • children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
  • children's home — care institution for minors
  • children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
  • chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
  • christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • clinically dead — having no respiration, no heartbeat, and with no contraction of the pupils when exposed to a strong light
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
  • condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contact details — the information required to contact someone, such as an address or telephone number
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
  • covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
  • criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
  • criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • cyclopentadiene — a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C5H6
  • cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • data collection — the process of gathering information or data
  • decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
  • deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
  • decollate snail — a cone-shaped, burrowing snail, Rumina decollata, that feeds on common brown garden snails.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
  • decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
  • decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
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