15-letter words containing en
- borough-english — (until 1925) a custom in certain English boroughs whereby the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
- brand awareness — the extent to which consumers are aware of a particular product or service
- brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
- break and entry — breaking and entering.
- break statement — (programming) A statement in the C programming language that transfers control out of the innermost enclosing switch, while, do, or for statement. The statement also exists in languages derived from C, such as C++ and Java.
- breakeven chart — a graph measuring the value of an enterprise's revenue and costs against some index of its activity, such as percentage capacity. The intersection of the total revenue and total cost curves gives the breakeven point
- breakeven point — a point at which the total revenue and total cost are equal
- british english — the English language as spoken and written in England and as distinguished esp. from American English
- brocken specter — an optical phenomenon sometimes occurring at high altitudes when the image of an observer placed between the sun and a cloud is projected on the cloud as a greatly magnified shadow.
- broken pediment — a pediment, as over a doorway or window, having its raking cornice interrupted at the crown or apex.
- brompheniramine — a substance, C 16 H 19 BrN 2 , used as an antihistamine in the management of various allergies, as hay fever.
- brooklyn center — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- bun in the oven — in the womb
- burden of proof — The burden of proof is the task of proving that you are correct, for example when you have accused someone of a crime.
- business center — A business center is a room in a hotel with facilities such as computers and a fax machine, that allows guests to work while they are staying at the hotel.
- business centre — a place providing office facilities and services
- cabin attendant — flight attendant.
- cache coherency — (storage) (Or "cache consistency") /kash koh-heer'n-see/ The synchronisation of data in multiple caches such that reading a memory location via any cache will return the most recent data written to that location via any (other) cache. Some parallel processors do not cache accesses to shared memory to avoid the issue of cache coherency. If caches are used with shared memory then some system is required to detect when data in one processor's cache should be discarded or replaced because another processor has updated that memory location. Several such schemes have been devised.
- calendarization — the process of calendarizing
- canadian french — the French language as spoken in Canada, esp in Quebec
- canteen culture — the alleged clannishness of the police force, whereby the prevalent attitudes inhibit officers from reporting or speaking out against malpractice, racism, etc
- capital expense — A capital expense is the cost of acquiring or making improvements to fixed assets.
- capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
- car maintenance — the act of maintaining an automobile
- carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
- carmarthenshire — a county of S Wales, formerly part of Dyfed (1974–96): on Carmarthen Bay, with the Cambrian Mountains in the N: generally agricultural (esp dairying). Administrative centre: Carmarthen. Pop: 176 000 (2003 est). Area: 2398 sq km (926 sq miles)
- carpentersville — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- case conference — a meeting at which all the parties involved in a medical, legal, or social work case come together to discuss it
- casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
- cassini-huygens — a NASA-ESA spacecraft launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons; Cassini entered orbit around the planet in 2004 and released the Huygens probe which landed on Titan in 2005
- catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
- cauchy sequence — fundamental sequence.
- 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
- change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
- charles dickens — Charles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
- charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
- chelating agent — a chemical compound that coordinates with a metal to form a chelate, often used to trap or remove heavy metal ions
- chemoprevention — the prevention of disease, esp cancer, by means of chemical agents
- chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
- chenopodium oil — a colorless or yellowish oil obtained from the seeds and leaves of Mexican tea, used chiefly in medicine as an agent for killing or expelling intestinal worms.