15-letter words that end in e
- celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
- central reserve — the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway
- cephalochordate — any chordate animal of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a fishlike body and no vertebral column; lancelet
- chagas' disease — a form of trypanosomiasis found in South America, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, characterized by fever and, often, inflammation of the heart muscles
- champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
- chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
- change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
- chantilly-sauce — a town in N France, N of Paris: lace manufacture.
- character dance — a style of balletic folk dance that intends to give a sense of national character and color.
- character piece — a short, simple piece, usually for piano, of a type developed chiefly during the 19th century, often of a descriptive or seemingly improvisatory character.
- character space — a space in a computer file into which a character can be fitted or which can be left blank
- characterizable — Able to be characterized.
- charles babbage — Charles, 1792–1871, English mathematician: invented the precursor of the modern computer.
- charlotte russe — a cold dessert made in a mould with sponge fingers enclosing a mixture of whipped cream, custard, etc
- charlottesville — city in central Va.: pop. 45,000
- 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.
- check guarantee — A check guarantee is any method, usually via a plastic card, that guarantees that a payment made by check will be honored by the account holder’s bank.
- chef de cuisine — chef (def 1).
- chemical change — Chemistry. a usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance: The formation of rust on iron is a chemical change.
- cheshire cheese — a mild-flavoured cheese with a crumbly texture, originally made in Cheshire
- chestnut bottle — an American glass bottle or flask of the 19th century, having slightly flattened sides.
- cheval de frise — a portable obstacle, usually a sawhorse, covered with projecting spikes or barbed wire, for military use in closing a passage, breaking in a defensive wall, etc.
- cheval-de-frise — a portable barrier of spikes, sword blades, etc, used to obstruct the passage of cavalry
- chewings fescue — a hardy, fine-leaved variety of fescue, Festuca rubra commutata, grown in the U.S. and New Zealand as a lawn grass.
- chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
- chief executive — the person with overall responsibility for the efficient running of a company, organization, etc
- chief of police — (in the US) the head of a regional or municipal police department
- children's home — care institution for minors
- chile con carne — chili con carne
- chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
- chili con carne — Chili con carne is a dish made from meat, with a thick sauce of tomatoes, and powdered or fresh chilies.
- chinese cabbage — a Chinese plant, Brassica pekinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has crisp edible leaves growing in a loose cylindrical head
- chloral hydrate — a colourless crystalline soluble solid produced by the reaction of chloral with water and used as a sedative and hypnotic; 2,2,2-trichloro-1,1-ethanediol. Formula: CCl3CH(OH)2
- chop and change — When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act.
- chorale prelude — a composition for organ using a chorale as a cantus firmus or as the basis for variations
- chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
- chromic acetate — a grayish-green, water-soluble powder, Cr(C 2 H 3 O 2) 3 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles.
- chronic disease — long-term illness
- churrigueresque — of or relating to a style of baroque architecture of Spain in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
- chute-the-chute — an amusement-park ride with a steep slide, often into a pool of water
- cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
- cinder concrete — concrete having small coal clinkers as an aggregate.
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- circumscriptive — That circumscribes or outlines.
- circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
- 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.
- citrus red mite — a large mite, Panonychus citri, that is an important pest of citrus.
- class structure — social hierarchy
- closed fracture — simple fracture.
- closed sentence — a formula that contains no free occurrence of any variable