15-letter words that end in n
- chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
- child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
- chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
- chinese lantern — a collapsible lantern made of thin coloured paper
- chocolate brown — a dark brown
- cholecystokinin — a hormone secreted by duodenal cells that stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder and secretion of pancreatic enzymes
- chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
- christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
- circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
- circularization — to circulate (a letter, memorandum, etc.).
- circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
- circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
- circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
- city councilman — a member of a city council
- civilianization — the conversion from military to civilian status
- class inclusion — the relation between two classes in which all members of one class are included in the other, as in the proposition “All humans are animals.”.
- classical latin — the form of Latin used in classical literature, especially the literary Latin of the 1st century b.c. and the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d.
- close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
- closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
- 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.
- coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
- codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
- coleman lantern — a gasoline lantern that gives a bright light, used by campers
- collective noun — A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
- college station — a city in E central Texas.
- colonialization — the act of bringing into subjection or subjugation by colonializing.
- comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
- coming bet ween — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
- committeeperson — a member of a committee.
- commodification — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- commoditization — The transformation of something into a commodity.
- common fraction — a fraction whose numerator and denominator are both whole numbers
- company pension — a pension scheme run by a company for its employees
- complementation — In linguistics, a complementation pattern of a verb, noun, or adjective is the patterns that typically follow it.
- computer screen — the working area on the monitor of a computer
- computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- conestoga wagon — a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
- congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
- contour curtain — a curtain having lines attached to several points for drawing up into folds of various shapes.
- contrary motion — melodic motion in which one part rises in pitch while the other descends.
- contravallation — fortifications built by besiegers around the place besieged
- controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.
- convection oven — a type of oven which cooks food by circulating hot air
- conveyorization — the process of conveyorizing
- copy protection — a routine that is included in a program by its publisher to prevent the software from being duplicated except for a single backup copy.
- corporatization — The privatization of a publicly-owned organization.
- corporification — an act or the quality of embodying