15-letter words containing o, n, e, r, s
- concession road — (esp in Ontario) one of a series of roads separating concessions in a township
- concessionaires — a person, group, or company to whom a concession has been granted, especially to operate a subsidiary business or service: a popcorn concessionaire at a baseball park.
- concrete syntax — (language, data) The syntax of a language including all the features visible in the source code such as parentheses and delimiters. The concrete syntax is used when parsing the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of abstract syntax tree (conforming to an abstract syntax). In communications, concrete syntax is called transfer syntax.
- concurrent lisp — (language) A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
- concurrent user — one of several simultaneous users of a computing resource such as a computer program or file
- confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
- confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
- conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
- confraternities — Plural form of confraternity.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- congress-people — congressmember.
- congressionally — of or relating to a congress.
- connoisseurship — a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
- consecratedness — the state of being consecrated
- conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
- conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
- conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
- considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- construct state — (in Semitic languages) the inflected form of a noun dependent on a following noun, with the combination expressing a genitive relationship, as Hebrew beth David “house of David,” where beth “house of” is the construct form of bayit “house.”.
- consumer choice — the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
- consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
- consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
- contact address — an address where a person can be contacted
- contact process — a catalytic method for producing sulfuric acid from sulfur dioxide and oxygen.
- container class — (programming) A class whose instances are collections of other objects. Examples include arrays, lists, queues and stacks. A container class typically provides methods such as count, insert, delete and search.
- contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- contrariousness — The state or quality of being contrarious.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
- controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
- controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- converging lens — a lens that converts parallel rays of light to convergent rays and produces a real image.
- conversationism — a colloquialism
- conversationist — Someone skilled in the art of conversations.
- converted steel — cement steel.
- convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
- cooling process — the process of becoming cooler
- cooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- copper arsenite — a yellowish-green, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, CuHAsO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment and as an insecticide.
- corona borealis — a small compact constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Boötes and Hercules
- correcting lens — a thin lens used to correct spherical aberration introduced by the spherical mirror in certain optical systems
- correlativeness — The state or quality of being correlative.
- correspondences — communication by exchange of letters.
- 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.