13-letter words containing c, e, l, s, p
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
- close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
- closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
- clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
- colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- compass plane — a plane for smoothing curved surfaces.
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- completedness — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completer set — a set of supplementary pieces that completes a set of dishes, as creamer, sugar bowl, platter, gravy boat, and vegetable dish.
- completionist — (in a video game) a player who attempts to complete every challenge and earn every achievement or trophy: I’m not really a completionist, so I skipped the side missions and focused on the main story quests.
- complexedness — complexity
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- compressional — relating to compression
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- contemplators — Plural form of contemplator.
- corporealness — The state or quality of being corporeal.
- corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- crustal plate — a large block or tabular section of the lithosphere that reacts to tectonic forces as a unit and moves as such.
- crystal pleat — one of a series of fine, permanently pressed pleats of varying widths, usually in a sheer fabric
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- decapitalised — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- depoliticised — Simple past tense and past participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depoliticize.
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dipleidoscope — an instrument that uses a telescope and a hollow prism to see when the sun crosses the meridian
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.