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

  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chest infection — a respiratory infection mainly affecting the chest
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • 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
  • 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
  • chorioretinitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the choroid and retina of the eye.
  • chronic disease — long-term illness
  • 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.
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
  • 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.
  • 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 universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • 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]>.
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
  • coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
  • coconsciousness — the state or position of being coconscious
  • coinstantaneity — the act of taking place at exactly the same moment
  • coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
  • college station — a city in E central Texas.
  • 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.
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
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