15-letter words containing i, a, n, m, c, l
- bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
- cacodaemoniacal — Demonic; evil.
- calamine lotion — a soothing lotion containing calamine
- calcium cyanide — a white or grayish-black compound, Ca(CN) 2, used as an insecticide and rodent poison.
- calcium nitrate — a white, deliquescent solid, Ca(NO 3) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, fireworks, matches, and explosives.
- california mink — cacomistle.
- call for margin — a demand made by a stockbroker for partial payment of a client's debt due to decreasing value of the collateral
- cantilever beam — a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
- capitulationism — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
- cardinal humour — any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
- cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
- cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
- cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
- career criminal — a person who earns his income through criminal activities
- central america — an isthmus joining the continents of North and South America, extending from the S border of Mexico to the NW border of Colombia and consisting of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Area: about 518 000 sq km (200 000 sq miles)
- ceylon cinnamon — the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
- charles simonyi — (person) Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
- chatham islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, forming a county of South Island, New Zealand: consists of the main islands of Chatham, Pitt, and several rocky islets. Chief settlement: Waitangi. Pop: 609 (2006 est). Area: 963 sq km (372 sq miles)
- chemical change — Chemistry. a usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance: The formation of rust on iron is a chemical change.
- chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
- chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
- chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
- church militant — those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.
- circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
- circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- circumstantials — incidentals; details
- circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
- circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
- city councilman — a member of a city council
- climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
- climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
- colonial animal — compound animal
- combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
- commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
- common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
- communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
- communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- communicational — relating to or characterized by communication
- 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
- communistically — In a communistic manner.
- compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.