15-letter words containing os
- california rose — a cultivated variety of a bindweed, Calystegia hederacea, having showy, double, rose-colored flowers.
- cape gooseberry — a tropical American solanaceous plant, Physalis peruviana, naturalized in southern Africa, having yellow flowers and edible yellow berries
- carcinosarcomas — Plural form of carcinosarcoma.
- castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
- centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
- chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
- cholecystostomy — a medical cut or opening into the gall bladder to enable a drainage tube to be put in place
- choledochostomy — formation of a temporary opening through the abdominal wall into the common bile duct, usually to remove stones.
- chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
- chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
- christcross-row — the alphabet.
- chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
- close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
- close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
- closed fracture — simple fracture.
- closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
- closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
- closed sentence — a formula that contains no free occurrence of any variable
- closed traverse — a traverse ending at its point of origin.
- closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
- 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.
- colposcopically — by means of a colposcope or colposcopy
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- composing stick — a metal holder of adjustable width in which a compositor sets a line of type at a time by hand; now rarely used
- composite print — a photograph characterized by overlapping or juxtaposed images resulting from a multiple exposure or the combining of negatives (composite print)
- compositionally — in a compositional manner
- concerto grosso — a composition for an orchestra and a group of soloists, chiefly of the baroque period
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- corpora callosa — corpus callosum
- corpus callosum — the band of white fibres that connects the cerebral hemispheres in mammals
- corticosteroids — Plural form of corticosteroid.
- cosignificative — having the same meaning or sense
- cosmopolitanism — free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
- cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
- cost accounting — Cost accounting is the recording and analysis of all the various costs of running a business.
- cost of capital — The cost of capital is how much it costs to borrow money with interest or issue securities to raise money.
- costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
- costochondritis — (medicine) A benign inflammation of the costal cartilage, causing pain between the ribs.
- costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
- counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
- crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
- cross assembler — an assembler that runs on a computer other than the one for which it assembles programs
- cross of valour — the highest Canadian award for bravery
- cross tolerance — the resistance to one or more effects of a substance because of tolerance to a pharmacologically similar substance: a cross-tolerance of some alcoholics to anesthetics.
- cross-assembler — An assembler which runs on one type of processor and produces machine code for another. There is a set of 6502, 68xx and Zilog Z80 and 8085 cross-assemblers in C by <[email protected]> and Alan R. Baldwin. They run under MS-DOS and could be compiled to run under Unix and on the Amiga and Atari ST. See also fas.
- cross-fertilize — to subject or be subjected to cross-fertilization
- cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
- cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
- cross-reference — A cross-reference is a note in a book which tells you that there is relevant or more detailed information in another part of the book.