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15-letter words containing n, o, d, e, c, l

  • closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • closed sentence — a formula that contains no free occurrence of any variable
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • closed-end fund — A closed-end fund is an investment with a limited number of shares that does not allow new investors.
  • closed-end loan — A closed-end loan is a loan such as an auto loan, with fixed terms, and where the money is lent all at once and paid back by a particular date.
  • college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • 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.
  • concealed-carry — the practice of carrying a concealed gun or other weapon in public.
  • condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • congealed salad — a molded gelatin salad containing chopped fruit or vegetables.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contact details — the information required to contact someone, such as an address or telephone number
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
  • converted steel — cement steel.
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
  • correspondently — in a correspondent manner
  • correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
  • cottonseed meal — the residue of cottonseed kernels from which oil has been extracted, used as fodder or fertilizer
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • country dweller — a person who lives in the country
  • covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • crestone needle — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,197 feet (4330 meters).
  • criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
  • cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • cyclopentadiene — a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C5H6
  • data collection — the process of gathering information or data
  • dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
  • deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
  • declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
  • decollate snail — a cone-shaped, burrowing snail, Rumina decollata, that feeds on common brown garden snails.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
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