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

  • cosmopolitanism — free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
  • cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
  • costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
  • cottonseed meal — the residue of cottonseed kernels from which oil has been extracted, used as fodder or fertilizer
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • cyclohexylamine — a highly toxic and hazardous organic chemical derived from cyclohexane
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • cytoplasmically — by means of a cytoplasm
  • deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
  • deal someone in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
  • deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • delsarte method — a theory or system devised by François Delsarte for improving musical and dramatic expression through the mastery of various bodily attitudes and gestures.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • demonstrational — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
  • demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
  • denormalization — to make normal.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • developmentally — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
  • diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
  • diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
  • diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
  • dilatory motion — a formal proposal to be discussed and voted on in a debate whose effect is to interrupt the business under discussion at the time
  • diomede islands — two small islands in the Bering Strait, separated by the international date line and by the boundary line between the US and Russia
  • disassimilation — The decomposition of complex substances, within an organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with the release of energy; a normal nutritional process that is the reverse of assimilation.
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