15-letter words containing s, l, i, n
- chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
- chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
- chinese lantern — a collapsible lantern made of thin coloured paper
- chinese parsley — coriander leaves used as an herb; cilantro
- 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
- christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
- chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
- chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
- 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.
- circumstantials — incidentals; details
- circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
- clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
- 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 president — the student president of a school or college class
- 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.
- classical latin — the form of Latin used in classical literature, especially the literary Latin of the 1st century b.c. and the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d.
- 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.
- 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]>.
- coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
- 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.
- 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.
- conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
- conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.