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13-letter words containing c, e, i, n

  • claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
  • cleaning lady — A cleaning lady is a woman who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building.
  • clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
  • clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
  • clearing-line — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
  • cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
  • client-server — (programming)   A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds. This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case. There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client. Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.
  • climatic zone — any of the eight principal zones, roughly demarcated by lines of latitude, into which the earth can be divided on the basis of climate
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clincher tire — an automobile tire having on each side of its inner circumference a rubber flange that fits under the turned-over edge of the wheel rim.
  • clinging vine — a woman who displays excessive emotional dependence on a man
  • clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
  • clinopyroxene — a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having a monoclinic crystal structure, such as augite, diopside, or jadeite
  • cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
  • clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
  • closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
  • closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • coca-colonize — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
  • cocaine habit — an addiction to cocaine
  • cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
  • cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
  • code position — (character)   An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
  • codeclination — the astronomical coordinate complementary to the declination
  • codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
  • coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
  • coextensively — To the same extent.
  • coffin corner — any of the corners of a football field formed by a goal line and side line: punts are sometimes directed to a coffin corner so that the ball will go out of bounds near the opponent's goal line
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
  • coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
  • coinheritance — joint inheritance
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
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