13-letter words containing c, l, o, s, n, e
- cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- closed season — The closed season is the period of the year when it is prohibited to kill certain types of animal or fish.
- closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- 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.
- cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- 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.
- coelenterates — Plural form of coelenterate.
- coextensively — To the same extent.
- coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
- collectedness — The state or quality of being collected.
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
- colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- colorlessness — The state of being colorless.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
- commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- 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.
- 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
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- 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).
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.