13-letter words containing a, l, o, u, i
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
- consultations — Plural form of consultation.
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contextualise — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- contextualism — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
- contextualist — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
- contextuality — (uncountable) The condition of being contextual.
- contextualize — to state the social, grammatical, or other context of; put into context
- contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
- coralligenous — producing coral
- corticobulbar — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the brainstem, especially with regard to the corticobulbar tract, a white matter pathway connecting the two.
- cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
- costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
- costimulatory — Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- court martial — A court martial is a trial in a military court of a member of the armed forces who is charged with breaking a military law.
- court-martial — a court consisting of military or naval personnel appointed by a commander to try charges of offenses by soldiers, sailors, etc., against military or naval law.
- cruzeiro real — a former monetary unit of Brazil, which was replaced by the real
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
- denticulation — a denticulate structure
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- digital audio — (multimedia, file format) A sequence of discrete samples taken from a continuous sound (audio) waveform. Tens of thousands of samples are taken each second. Each sample represents the intensity of the sound pressure wave at that instant. Apart from the sampling frequency, the other parameter is the digital encoding of each sample including the number of bits used. The encoding may be linear, logarithmic or mu-law. Digital audio is typically created by taking 16-bit samples over a spectrum of 44.1 thousand cycles per second (kHz), this means that CD quality sound requires 1.4 million bits of data per second. Digital telephone systems use lower sample rates. See also Audio IFF, MP3, wav. A FAQ on audio file formats is available. Part 1, Part 2.
- digital fount — a typeface of which the letter-shapes have been converted into digital form so that they can be used in computer-aided typesetting
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.