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

  • blow one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • boiled dressing — a cooked salad dressing thickened with egg yolks and often containing mustard.
  • borderline case — a person or thing that is not clearly classifiable as something
  • bottled in bond — stored in bonded warehouses for a stated length of time before being bottled, as some whiskey
  • brave new world — If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
  • bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
  • brooklyn bridge — a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5989 feet (1825 meters) long.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
  • bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
  • bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
  • bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • business double — a double made to increase the penalty points earned when a player believes the opponents cannot make their bid.
  • cacodaemoniacal — Demonic; evil.
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
  • canadian legion — a national social club for veterans of the Canadian armed services.
  • cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
  • chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • 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.
  • child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
  • children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
  • children's home — care institution for minors
  • children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
  • chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
  • chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • 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.
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