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

  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • 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.
  • clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
  • coffee-coloured — having the colour of coffee; dark brown; light brown
  • cold-water flat — (formerly) an apartment provided with only cold running water, often in a building with no central heating.
  • coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • collared lizard — any of several species of long-tailed iguanid lizards of the genus Crotaphytus, of central and western U.S. and northern Mexico, usually having a collar of two black bands.
  • 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 beetle — a black-and-yellow beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, that is a serious pest of potatoes, feeding on the leaves: family Chrysomelidae
  • colorado desert — an arid region of SE California and NW Mexico, west of the Colorado River. Area: over 5000 sq km (2000 sq miles)
  • commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
  • committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
  • 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.
  • concealed-carry — the practice of carrying a concealed gun or other weapon in public.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
  • converted steel — cement steel.
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • copper-coloured — of a reddish-brown colour
  • cordillera real — a range of the Andes, in Bolivia. Highest peak, Illimani, 21,201 feet (6462 meters).
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
  • 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.
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • country dweller — a person who lives in the country
  • covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
  • 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
  • cradle-to-grave — extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of health care.
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
  • crestone needle — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,197 feet (4330 meters).
  • criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
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