15-letter words containing el
- camelot library — (library)
- camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
- canadian shield — (in Canada) the wide area of Precambrian rock extending west from the Labrador coast to the basin of the Mackenzie and north from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay and the Arctic: rich in minerals
- cancel a policy — If you cancel a policy, you terminate a contract of insurance.
- cannellini bean — a cream-coloured kidney-shaped bean with a mild flavour
- cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
- canterbury bell — a campanulaceous biennial European plant, Campanula medium, widely cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers
- cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
- cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
- cast a spell on — to put into, or as into, a trance
- castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
- castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
- catharine wheel — Catherine wheel.
- catherine wheel — A Catherine wheel is a firework in the shape of a circle which spins round and round.
- 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.
- chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
- 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.
- channel hopping — (chat) To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board. This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel surfing".
- channel islands — a group of islands in the English Channel, off the NW coast of France, consisting of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Brechou or Brecqhou, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and Lihou (all between them representing the British Kingdom Crown Dependencies of the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey) - the only part of the duchy of Normandy remaining to Britain - and the Roches Douvres and the Îles Chausey (which belong to France). Pop: 149 878 (2001). Area: 194 sq km (75 sq miles)
- channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- channel-hopping — Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch.
- channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
- 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.
- 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
- chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
- chicken colonel — an officer with the rank of full colonel
- chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
- chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
- chorale prelude — a composition for organ using a chorale as a cantus firmus or as the basis for variations
- 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
- cinderella book — (publication) "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- coeliac disease — a chronic intestinal disorder caused by sensitivity to the protein gliadin contained in the gluten of cereals, characterized by distention of the abdomen and frothy and pale foul-smelling stools
- collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
- come to oneself — to recover one's senses
- common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- compassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
- concern oneself — to busy oneself (with, about, over, in something); take an interest
- congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.