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15-letter words containing o, n, s, l

  • children's home — care institution for minors
  • children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chorioallantois — the membrane of a fetus that is formed by the merging of the allantois and the chorion
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
  • circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
  • class inclusion — the relation between two classes in which all members of one class are included in the other, as in the proposition “All humans are animals.”.
  • class-conscious — Someone who is class-conscious is very aware of the differences between the various classes of people in society, and often has a strong feeling of belonging to a particular class.
  • classifications — Plural form of classification.
  • cloak-and-sword — (of a drama or work of fiction) dealing with characters who wear cloaks and swords; concerned with the customs and romance of the nobility in bygone times.
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • 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.
  • cmu common lisp — (language)   (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • college station — a city in E central Texas.
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
  • colonizationist — a person who is in favour of colonization
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • colour contrast — the change in the appearance of a colour surrounded by another colour; for example, grey looks bluish if surrounded by yellow
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • come to oneself — to recover one's senses
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • common-sensible — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
  • communistically — In a communistic manner.
  • compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
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