14-letter words containing c, o, s, t, u
- butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
- campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
- cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
- castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
- casual contact — the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.
- caustic potash — potassium hydroxide
- censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
- cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
- circumposition — the act of circumposing
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- clifford trust — a type of living trust set up for at least a 10-year period, during which the income goes to a beneficiary and after which the principal reverts to the grantor.
- close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
- close quarters — a narrow cramped space or position
- closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
- closed couplet — a couplet that concludes with an end-stopped line.
- closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
- combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commissurotomy — the incision of a band of commissures, especially of mitral fibers, to correct mitral stenosis.
- common assault — an action that causes a person to fear that he or she is in danger of violent attack
- communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
- communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
- compusult ltd. — A computer consulting firm (in Newfoundland, Canada?) that provides a public access Unix.
- compute server — (computer, parallel) A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
- computer virus — virus
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualise.
- conceptualists — Plural form of conceptualist.
- conceptualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualize.
- concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
- concupiscently — In a concupiscent manner; with concupiscence.
- conductivities — Plural form of conductivity.
- conductor loss — Conductor loss is loss occurring in a conductor due to the flow of current.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- conjunctivitis — Conjunctivitis is an eye infection which causes the thin skin that covers the eye to become red.
- connaturalness — connaturality