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15-letter words containing i, c, o, n, l

  • chile con carne — chili con carne
  • chili con carne — Chili con carne is a dish made from meat, with a thick sauce of tomatoes, and powdered or fresh chilies.
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
  • chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cholangiography — radiographic examination of the bile ducts after the introduction into them of a contrast medium
  • cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chorioallantoic — relating to the chorioallantois
  • chorioallantois — the membrane of a fetus that is formed by the merging of the allantois and the chorion
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • chronologically — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
  • church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
  • circularization — to circulate (a letter, memorandum, etc.).
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
  • city councilman — a member of a city council
  • civilianization — the conversion from military to civilian status
  • class inclusion — the relation between two classes in which all members of one class are included in the other, as in the proposition “All humans are animals.”.
  • class-conscious — Someone who is class-conscious is very aware of the differences between the various classes of people in society, and often has a strong feeling of belonging to a particular class.
  • classifications — Plural form of classification.
  • 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.
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • 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 position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
  • cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
  • cmu common lisp — (language)   (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • 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 station — a city in E central Texas.
  • colonial animal — compound animal
  • colonial office — a government body that was set up to oversee the affairs of the British Empire colonies
  • colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
  • colonialization — the act of bringing into subjection or subjugation by colonializing.
  • colonizationist — a person who is in favour of colonization
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
  • combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
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