15-letter words containing s, o, r, e, l
- charlottesville — city in central Va.: pop. 45,000
- chelsea tractor — a four-by-four
- chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
- chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
- children's home — care institution for minors
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
- cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
- choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
- chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
- ciliary process — one of the folds on the ciliary body, connected with the suspensory ligament of the crystalline lens.
- clare of assisi — Saint. 1194–1253, Italian nun; founder of the Franciscan Order of Poor Clares. Feast day: Aug 11
- cleptoparasites — Plural form of cleptoparasite.
- closed fracture — simple fracture.
- 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 traverse — a traverse ending at its point of origin.
- closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
- cluster college — a small residential college affiliated with a university but semi-independent and specializing in one field of study.
- coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
- cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
- coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
- collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
- college of arms — any of several institutions in the United Kingdom having a royal charter to deal with matters of heraldry, grant armorial bearings, record and trace genealogies, etc
- color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
- colorado desert — an arid region of SE California and NW Mexico, west of the Colorado River. Area: over 5000 sq km (2000 sq miles)
- colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
- colour-reversal — (of film or photographic paper) designed to produce a positive image directly from a positive subject
- comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
- complementizers — Plural form of complementizer.
- complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
- compressed slip — (networking) (CSLIP) VanJacobsen TCP header compression. A version of SLIP using compression. CSLIP has no effect on the data portion of the packet and has nothing to do with compression by modem. It does reduce the TCP header from 40 bytes to 7 bytes, a noticeable difference when doing telnet with lots of little packets. CSLIP has no effect on UDP, only TCP.
- compressibility — the ability to be compressed
- compromise rail — a rail for linking rails having different sections.
- comptrollership — controller (def 1).
- concern oneself — to busy oneself (with, about, over, in something); take an interest
- concurrent lisp — (language) A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
- conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- congress-people — congressmember.
- congressionally — of or relating to a congress.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- container class — (programming) A class whose instances are collections of other objects. Examples include arrays, lists, queues and stacks. A container class typically provides methods such as count, insert, delete and search.
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
- controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.