15-letter words containing m, e, r, l
- camelot library — (library)
- camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
- camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
- canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
- 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
- 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.
- career criminal — a person who earns his income through criminal activities
- carpometacarpal — Anatomy. of or relating to the carpus and the metacarpus.
- 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)
- chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
- chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
- charles coulomb — Charles Augustin de [sharl oh-gy-stan duh] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French physicist and inventor.
- 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.
- cheap assembler — (tool) (CHASM) A shareware assembler for MS-DOS.
- chemolithotroph — Chemoautotroph.
- chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
- children's home — care institution for minors
- chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
- cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
- chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
- circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
- circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
- circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
- circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- 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.
- climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- coleman lantern — a gasoline lantern that gives a bright light, used by campers
- collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
- collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
- college of arms — any of several institutions in the United Kingdom having a royal charter to deal with matters of heraldry, grant armorial bearings, record and trace genealogies, etc
- comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
- comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
- commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
- commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
- communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
- 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.
- complete theory — (logic) An abstract logical theory in which all true statements have formal proofs within the theory.