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15-letter words containing cor

  • decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • esprit de corps — military, sport: team spirit
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
  • hernando cortez — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
  • hole-and-corner — secretive; clandestine; furtive: The political situation was full of hole-and-corner intrigue.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hypercorrection — the substitution, in an inappropriate context, of a pronunciation, grammatical form, or usage thought by the speaker or writer to be appropriate, resulting usually from overgeneralizing in an effort to replace seemingly incorrect forms with correct ones, as the substitution of between you and I for between you and me, by analogy with you and I as the subject of a sentence.
  • hypocortisolism — (medicine) A cortisol deficiency.
  • incorrigibility — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
  • indian licorice — rosary pea.
  • intercorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
  • little corporal — (Napoleon Bonaparte"the Little Corporal") 1769–1821, French general born in Corsica: emperor of France 1804–15.
  • master corporal — a noncommissioned officer in the Canadian forces senior to a corporal and junior to a sergeant
  • medical records — written information about a person's health during their life to date
  • megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
  • ncr corporation — (company)   Electronics company mainly active in the midrange server market. NCR was founded 1884 as National Cash Register Company. It joint the computer industry in th 1950s. In 1991 it was absorbed by AT&T (see dinosaurs mating), only to be spat out again in 1996. NCR mainframes of the 1960's are remembered by some for their hardware incompatibility with IBM mainframes: NCR punched round holes in their punched cards while IBM punched rectangular ones. The codes and machines were not compatible and information could not be easily shared between NCR and IBM customers.
  • non-correlation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
  • nonincorporated — Not incorporated.
  • on (the) record — recorded; publicly or officially declared or known
  • over-correction — correction beyond what is needed or customary, especially when leading to error; overadjustment: The pilot made an overcorrection for headwinds.
  • peppercorn rent — A peppercorn rent is an extremely low rent.
  • piano accordion — accordion (def 1).
  • polish corridor — a strip of land near the mouth of the Vistula River: formerly separated Germany from East Prussia; given to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles 1919 to provide it with access to the Baltic.
  • record producer — sb who manages music recordings
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
  • reincorporation — the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
  • scala cordonata — a ramp having the form of broad, slightly inclined steps.
  • scorpion spider — whipscorpion.
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
  • sound recordist — recordist.
  • sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • turn the corner — the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
  • una corda pedal — soft pedal (def 1).
  • uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • video recording — sth filmed on videotape
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
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