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15-letter words containing e, l, d, r, s

  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • cheval de frise — a portable obstacle, usually a sawhorse, covered with projecting spikes or barbed wire, for military use in closing a passage, breaking in a defensive wall, etc.
  • cheval-de-frise — a portable barrier of spikes, sword blades, etc, used to obstruct the passage of cavalry
  • child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
  • child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
  • 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
  • chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
  • 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
  • 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 president — the student president of a school or college class
  • clear the decks — to prepare for action, as by removing obstacles from a field of activity or combat
  • clearheadedness — The quality of being clearheaded.
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
  • 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 traverse — a traverse ending at its point of origin.
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • colorado desert — an arid region of SE California and NW Mexico, west of the Colorado River. Area: over 5000 sq km (2000 sq miles)
  • compressed slip — (networking)   (CSLIP) VanJacobsen TCP header compression. A version of SLIP using compression. CSLIP has no effect on the data portion of the packet and has nothing to do with compression by modem. It does reduce the TCP header from 40 bytes to 7 bytes, a noticeable difference when doing telnet with lots of little packets. CSLIP has no effect on UDP, only TCP.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • converted steel — cement steel.
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • correspondently — in a correspondent manner
  • correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
  • could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • cradle snatcher — someone who marries or has an affair with a much younger person
  • crestone needle — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,197 feet (4330 meters).
  • crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
  • culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
  • daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
  • darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
  • dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
  • decorated style — a 14th-century style of English architecture characterized by the ogee arch, geometrical tracery, and floral decoration
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
  • decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
  • deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
  • deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
  • deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
  • delivery system — any means or process for conveying a product or service to a recipient.
  • delsarte method — a theory or system devised by François Delsarte for improving musical and dramatic expression through the mastery of various bodily attitudes and gestures.
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