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15-letter words containing t, a, c, l, e

  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • cephalochordate — any chordate animal of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a fishlike body and no vertebral column; lancelet
  • cephalohematoma — A hemorrhage of blood between the skull and periosteum of a newborn baby secondary to rupture of blood vessels crossing the periosteum.
  • cephalothoracic — the anterior part of the body in certain arachnids and crustaceans, consisting of the coalesced head and thorax.
  • cephalothoraxes — Plural form of cephalothorax.
  • cerebral cortex — the outermost layer of the cerebrum that is the locus of higher brain processes
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
  • champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
  • channel captain — the most powerful member, and often the one that decides specifications, in a channel for distributing goods (which usually consists of a manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer). The channel captain is sometimes the manufacturer but in the case of a chain store it may be the retailer
  • channel catfish — a food fish, Ictalurus punctatus, common in fresh waters throughout central U.S.
  • chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
  • character level — the stage or rank of a player character in a role-playing game or video game: When you advance to a higher character level, your character will have access to more advanced skills.
  • characterizable — Able to be characterized.
  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • charles tiffany — Charles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
  • charleston peak — a mountain in SE Nevada: highest peak in the Spring Mountains. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • charlotte russe — a cold dessert made in a mould with sponge fingers enclosing a mixture of whipped cream, custard, etc
  • charlottesville — city in central Va.: pop. 45,000
  • chelating agent — a chemical compound that coordinates with a metal to form a chelate, often used to trap or remove heavy metal ions
  • chelsea tractor — a four-by-four
  • chemical toilet — a toilet in which waste is treated with chemicals
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
  • chile saltpeter — sodium nitrate, esp. as found naturally in Chile and Peru
  • chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
  • chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
  • chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • chinese lantern — a collapsible lantern made of thin coloured paper
  • chloral hydrate — a colourless crystalline soluble solid produced by the reaction of chloral with water and used as a sedative and hypnotic; 2,2,2-trichloro-1,1-ethanediol. Formula: CCl3CH(OH)2
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • 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
  • chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • chryse planitia — a plain on Mars, the landing site of the Viking I spacecraft.
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
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