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15-letter words that end in l

  • california roll — a sushi roll containing avocado, cucumber, and crabmeat, or imitation crabmeat, wrapped in vinegared rice and seaweed.
  • camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
  • canterbury bell — a campanulaceous biennial European plant, Campanula medium, widely cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers
  • career criminal — a person who earns his income through criminal activities
  • carpometacarpal — Anatomy. of or relating to the carpus and the metacarpus.
  • catharine wheel — Catherine wheel.
  • catherine wheel — A Catherine wheel is a firework in the shape of a circle which spins round and round.
  • catholic school — a school that includes instruction in Roman Catholic faith in its curriculum, with teachers who are often nuns or monks
  • caustic alcohol — sodium ethylate.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • 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.
  • chaulmoogra oil — a brownish-yellow oil or soft fat expressed from the seeds of a chaulmoogra tree, used formerly in the treatment of leprosy and skin diseases.
  • 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.
  • chicken colonel — an officer with the rank of full colonel
  • chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
  • cholecalciferol — a compound occurring naturally in fish-liver oils, used to treat rickets. Formula: C27H44O
  • christmas carol — a joyful hymn or religious song, celebrating the birth of Christ
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
  • climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
  • 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
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • colonial animal — compound animal
  • colour-reversal — (of film or photographic paper) designed to produce a positive image directly from a positive subject
  • communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
  • communicational — relating to or characterized by communication
  • compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
  • compromise rail — a rail for linking rails having different sections.
  • compromissorial — Relating to compromise.
  • conference call — A conference call is a phone call in which more than two people take part.
  • configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • confrontational — If you describe the way that someone behaves as confrontational, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they are aggressive and likely to cause an argument or dispute.
  • continuity girl — a woman or man whose job is to ensure continuity and consistency, esp in matters of dress, make-up, etc, in successive shots of a film, esp when these shots are filmed on different days
  • convection cell — a distinct volume of circulating fluid, in a fluid medium under gravity, that is heated from below and cooled from above: usually found in large groupings.
  • converted steel — cement steel.
  • cordillera real — a range of the Andes, in Bolivia. Highest peak, Illimani, 21,201 feet (6462 meters).
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • cost of capital — The cost of capital is how much it costs to borrow money with interest or issue securities to raise money.
  • cottonseed meal — the residue of cottonseed kernels from which oil has been extracted, used as fodder or fertilizer
  • countercultural — of or relating to a counterculture
  • countercyclical — having the effect of checking or reversing fluctuations in the national economy or the finances of a business
  • counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
  • court of appeal — A Court of Appeal is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
  • crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
  • crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
  • cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
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