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15-letter words containing s, l, i, m, n

  • blow one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
  • capitulationism — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
  • cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • chatham islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, forming a county of South Island, New Zealand: consists of the main islands of Chatham, Pitt, and several rocky islets. Chief settlement: Waitangi. Pop: 609 (2006 est). Area: 963 sq km (372 sq miles)
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • children's home — care institution for minors
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumstantials — incidentals; details
  • circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • 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]>.
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • 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-sensible — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • communistically — In a communistic manner.
  • compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
  • complementizers — Plural form of complementizer.
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • compositionally — in a compositional manner
  • comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
  • confessionalism — the belief that a religion, esp Christianity, should have a set of essential doctrines to which members of that religion must adhere
  • conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
  • consulting room — A doctor's or therapist's consulting room is the room in which they see their patients.
  • conventionalism — advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
  • cooley's anemia — a form of thalassemia characterized by severe anemia, growth retardation, etc. and usually resulting in death at an early age: the genes causing this condition are inherited from both parents
  • cosmopolitanism — free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
  • cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
  • costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
  • criminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of criminalization.
  • crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • deal someone in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • 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.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
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