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13-letter words containing c, o, s, i

  • city dionysia — (in ancient Athens) the chief festival in honor of Dionysus, celebrated in early spring and notable for the performance of dithyrambs, tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays.
  • civic society — an organization founded to promote the interests of a local community
  • civil society — the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society
  • civilisations — Plural form of civilisation.
  • civilizations — Plural form of civilization.
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • class society — a society in which class distinctions are influential
  • clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • cleistothecia — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
  • cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
  • cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
  • cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
  • climatologist — A climatologist is someone who studies climates.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • clistothecium — cleistothecium.
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • 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 costs — fees paid when buying a house
  • 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 physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • co-authorship — the state a coauthor
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • coach station — A coach station is an area or a building which coaches leave from or arrive at on regular journeys.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coastal plain — a plain extending along a coast.
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • 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.
  • cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
  • coccobacillus — a spherelike bacillus.
  • cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
  • coconspirator — a fellow conspirator
  • cocos islands — a group of 27 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Java: a Territory of Australia since 1955. Pop: 596 (2010). Area: 13 sq km (5 sq miles)
  • code position — (character)   An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
  • codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
  • coextensively — To the same extent.
  • cohesive soil — sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water
  • collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
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