14-letter words containing c, u, t, s, e
- burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
- bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
- butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
- calculatedness — the state of being calculated
- cancer cluster — the occurrence of a higher than expected number of cancer cases in a small, defined geographical area or population.
- cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
- castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
- catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
- censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
- central sulcus — a deep cleft in each hemisphere of the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe
- 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.
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
- circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- circumspective — given to or marked by circumspection; watchful; cautious: His behavior was circumspective.
- citrus heights — a city in central California, near Sacramento.
- class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- 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.
- 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.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
- 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.
- 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.
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- connaturalness — connaturality
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- consequentness — The state or quality of being consequent.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constituencies — Plural form of constituency.
- constitutively — In a constitutive manner.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.