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15-letter words containing m, o, l, u

  • chaulmoogra oil — a brownish-yellow oil or soft fat expressed from the seeds of a chaulmoogra tree, used formerly in the treatment of leprosy and skin diseases.
  • 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.
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumlocutious — Circumlocutional.
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
  • city councilman — a member of a city council
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • 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]>.
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • 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
  • 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 cloth — corporal3 .
  • 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.
  • commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
  • compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • computationally — from a computational point of view
  • consulting room — A doctor's or therapist's consulting room is the room in which they see their patients.
  • conventual mass — the Mass celebrated daily in a convent church for all members of the conventual community.
  • core curriculum — a group of subjects that all students in a certain type of school or of a certain age must study
  • corpus callosum — the band of white fibres that connects the cerebral hemispheres in mammals
  • costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
  • coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
  • counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
  • critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • cuticle remover — a substance used to remove the cuticle from around the base of one's nails
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
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