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15-letter words containing e, n, r, o

  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • commissionaires — Plural form of commissionaire.
  • commissionnaire — Alternative form of commissionaire.
  • committeeperson — a member of a committee.
  • common currency — If you say that an idea or belief has become common currency, you mean it is widely used and accepted.
  • common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
  • common entrance — (in Britain) an entrance examination for a public school, usually taken at the age of 13
  • common property — property belonging to all members of a community.
  • communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
  • company manners — rules of politeness that people, esp children, are supposed to observe in the presence of other people
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
  • comparison test — a comparison of particular qualities or traits in two or more things in order to get a measurable assessment
  • competition car — a car that has been modified to compete in racing
  • compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
  • complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
  • complementarily — In a complementary manner.
  • complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
  • complementizers — Plural form of complementizer.
  • complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • composite print — a photograph characterized by overlapping or juxtaposed images resulting from a multiple exposure or the combining of negatives (composite print)
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
  • comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
  • comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
  • comprehensivize — to make (an educational system) comprehensive
  • compton-burnett — Dame Ivy. 1884–1969, English novelist. Her novels include Men and Wives (1931) and Mother and Son (1955)
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • computer screen — the working area on the monitor of a computer
  • computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
  • computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
  • computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
  • comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.
  • comrade-in-arms — A comrade-in-arms is someone who has worked for the same cause or purpose as you and has shared the same difficulties and dangers.
  • con espressione — (to be performed) with feeling; expressively
  • concealed-carry — the practice of carrying a concealed gun or other weapon in public.
  • conception rate — the success rate of artificial insemination in agricultural animals, usually expressed as a percentage
  • concern oneself — to busy oneself (with, about, over, in something); take an interest
  • concert pianist — a person who earns a living from giving solo performances on the piano in front of audiences
  • concertmistress — the first violinist in an orchestra
  • concerto grosso — a composition for an orchestra and a group of soloists, chiefly of the baroque period
  • concession road — (esp in Ontario) one of a series of roads separating concessions in a township
  • concessionaires — a person, group, or company to whom a concession has been granted, especially to operate a subsidiary business or service: a popcorn concessionaire at a baseball park.
  • concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
  • concrete number — a number referring to a particular object or objects, as in three dogs, ten men
  • concrete poetry — poetry in which the visual form of the poem is used to convey meaning
  • concrete syntax — (language, data)   The syntax of a language including all the features visible in the source code such as parentheses and delimiters. The concrete syntax is used when parsing the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of abstract syntax tree (conforming to an abstract syntax). In communications, concrete syntax is called transfer syntax.
  • concurrent lisp — (language)   A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
  • concurrent user — one of several simultaneous users of a computing resource such as a computer program or file
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