15-letter words containing en
- chicken cholera — fowl cholera.
- chicken colonel — an officer with the rank of full colonel
- chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
- chicken nuggets — small pieces of chicken fried in batter
- chicken-and-egg — of or relating to a paradoxical situation, question, etc. involving two factors, each of which in turn causes or leads to the other
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- chicken-livered — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
- children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
- children's home — care institution for minors
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
- chorda tendinea — any of the tendons extending from the papillary muscles to the atrioventricular valves and preventing the valves from moving into the atria during ventricular contraction.
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
- circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
- 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.
- clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
- class president — the student president of a school or college class
- clock frequency — clock rate
- closed sentence — a formula that contains no free occurrence of any variable
- closed-end fund — A closed-end fund is an investment with a limited number of shares that does not allow new investors.
- closed-end loan — A closed-end loan is a loan such as an auto loan, with fixed terms, and where the money is lent all at once and paid back by a particular date.
- code management — source code management
- coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
- coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
- college student — a student at a university or college
- collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
- combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
- comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- coming bet ween — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
- common currency — If you say that an idea or belief has become common currency, you mean it is widely used and accepted.
- common entrance — (in Britain) an entrance examination for a public school, usually taken at the age of 13
- common-sensible — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
- commonplaceness — The state or quality of being commonplace.
- company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
- comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- competitiveness — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- complementaries — forming a complement; completing.
- complementarily — In a complementary manner.
- complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
- complementation — In linguistics, a complementation pattern of a verb, noun, or adjective is the patterns that typically follow it.
- complementizers — Plural form of complementizer.
- complimentaries — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.