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13-letter words containing c, e, u, m

  • columelliform — like a columella.
  • column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
  • column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
  • come a stumer — to crash financially
  • come out with — If you come out with a remark, especially a surprising one, you make it.
  • come up roses — If you say that everything is coming up roses for someone, you mean that everything is going well for them.
  • come up short — disappoint
  • commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
  • comme il faut — correct or correctly
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
  • commented out — comment out
  • communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
  • communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
  • communicative — Someone who is communicative talks to people, for example about their feelings, and tells people things.
  • commutatively — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
  • commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
  • commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters
  • commuter town — a town that is home mainly to commuters
  • 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.
  • compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
  • compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
  • compound time — compound meter
  • compound tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of several sinusoidal waveforms superimposed upon one main one
  • computer chip — a small integrated circuit of a kind used in computers
  • computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
  • computer file — file
  • computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
  • computer geek — (jargon)   (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
  • computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
  • computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
  • concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
  • 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
  • concurrent ml — (language)   (CML) A concurrent extension of SML/NJ written by J. Reppy at Cornell University in 1990. CML supports dynamic thread creation and synchronous message passing on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class continuations. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both stream I/O and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bugs).
  • conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
  • connumeration — the act of counting together
  • consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
  • consumer unit — A consumer unit is a particular type of distribution board that controls and distributes electrical energy, especially in domestic premises.
  • consumeristic — characterized by consumerism
  • consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
  • 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.
  • cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
  • 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
  • cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
  • costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
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