15-letter words containing o, l, e, t
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- county palatine — the lands of a count palatine
- couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
- court of appeal — A Court of Appeal is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
- covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
- cradle-to-grave — extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of health care.
- crawler tractor — a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
- 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.
- crestone needle — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,197 feet (4330 meters).
- crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
- critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
- critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
- critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
- crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
- cross tolerance — the resistance to one or more effects of a substance because of tolerance to a pharmacologically similar substance: a cross-tolerance of some alcoholics to anesthetics.
- cross-fertilize — to subject or be subjected to cross-fertilization
- cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
- cross-tolerance — the resistance to one or more effects of a substance because of tolerance to a pharmacologically similar substance: a cross-tolerance of some alcoholics to anesthetics.
- crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
- crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
- cryoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with the application of low-temperature behavior, especially superconductivity, to electronic devices.
- crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
- crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
- culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
- culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
- curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- cut your losses — If you cut your losses, you stop doing what you were doing in order to prevent the bad situation that you are in becoming worse.
- cuticle remover — a substance used to remove the cuticle from around the base of one's nails
- cyanoethylation — the act of introducing a cyano-ethyl group into a compound
- cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
- cycling clothes — special clothes, such as lycra shorts, suitable for cycling in
- 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
- cytogenetically — (medicine, biology) By means or in terms of cytogenetics, the genetics of the cell.
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- dadchelor party — a party primarily attended by men and held to honour and present gifts to a prospective father
- data collection — the process of gathering information or data
- davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
- day of the lord — Also called Day of Yahweh. (in Old Testament eschatology) a day of final judgment. Amos 5:18–21; Ezek. 30.
- dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
- 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.
- 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