15-letter words containing r, o, l, i, n
- 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.
- correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
- corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
- corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
- costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
- council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
- counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
- counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
- counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- countercyclical — having the effect of checking or reversing fluctuations in the national economy or the finances of a business
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
- 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.
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- 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 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
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
- crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
- crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
- crosslinguistic — relating to different languages
- cryoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with the application of low-temperature behavior, especially superconductivity, to electronic devices.
- crystallisation — (British) alternative spelling of crystallization.
- crystallization — Crystallization is the process in which crystals are formed either from something that has been melted or from a solution.
- culturalization — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
- dead on arrival — dead before reaching hospital
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
- deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
- delta reduction — (theory) In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
- demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
- 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.