13-letter words containing c, o, n, s, u
- gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
- gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- honoris causa — for the sake of honour
- honors course — a course in a university or college consisting largely of independent research terminating in a dissertation or a comprehensive examination, and earning for the student who passes it a degree with distinction.
- honour school — (at Oxford University) one of the courses of study leading to an honours degree
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hors concours — noting an artist, architect, or the like, not competing or not qualified to compete for the prizes in an exhibit or competition.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- house counsel — a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that he or she represents.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- illusionistic — a technique of using pictorial methods in order to deceive the eye. Compare trompe l'oeil.
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
- in conclusion — to sum up, to conclude
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- in one's cups — a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
- in succession — one after another
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- inclusion map — a map of a set to itself in which each element of a given subset of the set is mapped to itself.
- incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
- income source — something that provides a regular supply of money, such as employment, investments, a pension etc
- incongruences — not congruent.
- incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- inconsecutive — not consecutive.
- inconsequence — characterized by lack of proper sequence in thought, speech, or action.
- inconspicuous — not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incorruptness — The state of being incorrupt.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incuriousness — The state of being incurious; indifference or apathy.
- inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- injudiciously — not judicious; showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet: an injudicious decision.
- innocuousness — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.