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13-letter words containing c, o, a, l, n, i

  • 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
  • continentally — of or of the nature of a continent.
  • contractility — capable of contracting or causing contraction.
  • contractional — of, relating to, or produced by contraction
  • contraorbital — of or relating to flight in the orbit of, but in a direction contrary to, a given rocket, ballistic missile, satellite, etc.
  • contrastingly — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
  • contrastively — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
  • contraversial — Misspelling of controversial.
  • contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
  • convalidation — In Roman Catholic canon law, the making of a putative marriage valid following the removal of some impediment.
  • convertiplane — an aircraft that can land and take off vertically by temporarily directing its propulsive thrust downwards
  • convocational — Of or pertaining to a convocation.
  • convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
  • conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • core analysis — Core analysis is the process of studying a sample of rock in a laboratory.
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
  • coresidential — relating to joint residency
  • corinth canal — a ship canal connecting the Gulf of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf across the Isthmus of Corinth
  • corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • corporational — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
  • correlational — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
  • corticospinal — Of, or pertaining to, or connecting the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.
  • cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
  • cost analysis — an economic evaluation
  • costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
  • 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
  • crenellations — the battlements on a building
  • criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
  • crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • cryogenically — in a cryogenic manner
  • cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
  • cycloaddition — a type of pericyclic chemical reaction
  • cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • cytochalasins — Plural form of cytochalasin.
  • cytogenetical — of or related to cytogenetics
  • dactyliomancy — the use of a suspended finger-ring for divination
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