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15-letter words containing ce

  • cauchy sequence — fundamental sequence.
  • caustic surface — a surface that envelopes the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface
  • cavalry officer — an officer in a cavalry regiment
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
  • cellar dwellers — the team at the bottom of a sports league
  • celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • central african — of or relating to the Central African Republic, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • central america — an isthmus joining the continents of North and South America, extending from the S border of Mexico to the NW border of Colombia and consisting of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Area: about 518 000 sq km (200 000 sq miles)
  • central casting — a nominal casting agency that delivers stereotypes to films or, figuratively, to real life situations
  • central heating — Central heating is a heating system for buildings. Air or water is heated in one place and travels round a building through pipes and radiators.
  • central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
  • central reserve — the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway
  • 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.
  • centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
  • 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
  • cerebrovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels and the blood supply of the brain
  • ceremoniousness — The state of being ceremonious.
  • certified check — A certified check is a check that is guaranteed by a bank, because the bank has set aside sufficient money in the account.
  • cervical cancer — a cancer of the cervix (the lower end of the womb)
  • cervical plexus — a network of nerves branching from the spinal nerves of the neck region and innervating the neck, chest, diaphragm, and part of the face.
  • ceteris paribus — other things being equal
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • ceylon cinnamon — the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
  • chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
  • chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
  • character dance — a style of balletic folk dance that intends to give a sense of national character and color.
  • character piece — a short, simple piece, usually for piano, of a type developed chiefly during the 19th century, often of a descriptive or seemingly improvisatory character.
  • character space — a space in a computer file into which a character can be fitted or which can be left blank
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chief of police — (in the US) the head of a regional or municipal police department
  • chromic acetate — a grayish-green, water-soluble powder, Cr(C 2 H 3 O 2) 3 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles.
  • ciliary process — one of the folds on the ciliary body, connected with the suspensory ligament of the crystalline lens.
  • circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
  • citizen science — scientific research, data collection, etc., that involves the participation of nonscientists (often used attributively): Bird watchers report their bird observations to citizen-science projects.
  • closed sentence — a formula that contains no free occurrence of any variable
  • colonial office — a government body that was set up to oversee the affairs of the British Empire colonies
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • common entrance — (in Britain) an entrance examination for a public school, usually taken at the age of 13
  • commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
  • companion piece — a subsidiary object, esp a work of art or piece of writing, that accompanies another
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
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