15-letter words containing m, o, r, l
- 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.
- complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
- compressed slip — (networking) (CSLIP) VanJacobsen TCP header compression. A version of SLIP using compression. CSLIP has no effect on the data portion of the packet and has nothing to do with compression by modem. It does reduce the TCP header from 40 bytes to 7 bytes, a noticeable difference when doing telnet with lots of little packets. CSLIP has no effect on UDP, only TCP.
- compressibility — the ability to be compressed
- compromise rail — a rail for linking rails having different sections.
- compromissorial — Relating to compromise.
- comptrollership — controller (def 1).
- conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- consulting room — A doctor's or therapist's consulting room is the room in which they see their patients.
- control command — a keyed instruction conveyed to a computer by using the control key in conjunction with the standard keys
- control program — (operating system) (CP) The component of IBM's Virtual Machine (VM) that provides "guest support" for operating systems that run on IBM mainframe compatible processors. Cp does this by providing a seamless emulation of privileged functions in the problem program environment.
- core curriculum — a group of subjects that all students in a certain type of school or of a certain age must study
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- corpus callosum — the band of white fibres that connects the cerebral hemispheres in mammals
- corticothalamic — Of or pertaining to the cortex and the thalamus.
- costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
- costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
- cotton bollworm — corn earworm.
- 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
- credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
- criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
- criminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of criminalization.
- criminalization — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
- crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
- 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.
- cross assembler — an assembler that runs on a computer other than the one for which it assembles programs
- cross-assembler — An assembler which runs on one type of processor and produces machine code for another. There is a set of 6502, 68xx and Zilog Z80 and 8085 cross-assemblers in C by <[email protected]> and Alan R. Baldwin. They run under MS-DOS and could be compiled to run under Unix and on the Amiga and Atari ST. See also fas.