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15-letter words containing m, o, n, s

  • centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
  • ceremoniousness — The state of being ceremonious.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • chanson d'amour — love song.
  • 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.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chef de mission — the head of a diplomatic body
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • chemotaxonomist — a specialist in the field of chemotaxonomy
  • children's home — care institution for minors
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
  • circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • 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]>.
  • coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
  • come to oneself — to recover one's senses
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • 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
  • commissionaires — Plural form of commissionaire.
  • commissionnaire — Alternative form of commissionaire.
  • committeeperson — a member of a committee.
  • common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
  • common-sensible — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
  • communist china — China, People's Republic of.
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • communistically — In a communistic manner.
  • community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
  • company manners — rules of politeness that people, esp children, are supposed to observe in the presence of other people
  • company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
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