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15-letter words containing e, n, c, o, u

  • business office — the office where the financial transactions, bookkeeping, etc. for a firm or institution are carried on
  • business school — A business school is a school or college which teaches business subjects such as economics and management.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
  • carnivorousness — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • cause of action — the facts alleged in a complaint, upon which is based the plaintiff's right to a legal remedy in a court of law
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
  • 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.
  • ceremoniousness — The state of being ceremonious.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
  • charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
  • charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • 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.
  • chestnut bottle — an American glass bottle or flask of the 19th century, having slightly flattened sides.
  • children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
  • clock frequency — clock rate
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • closed-end fund — A closed-end fund is an investment with a limited number of shares that does not allow new investors.
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • coconsciousness — the state or position of being coconscious
  • code of conduct — The code of conduct for a group or organization is an agreement on rules of behaviour for the members of that group or organization.
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
  • collective noun — A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
  • college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
  • come out on top — If a person, organization, or country comes out on top, they are more successful than the others that they have been competing with.
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • common currency — If you say that an idea or belief has become common currency, you mean it is widely used and accepted.
  • common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
  • community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
  • compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
  • compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
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