13-letter words containing e, o, l, i, c
- clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
- 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 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 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.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- coaxial cable — a cable consisting of an inner insulated core of stranded or solid wire surrounded by an outer insulated flexible wire braid, used esp as a transmission line for radio-frequency signals
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
- 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.
- coca-colonize — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape
- cock-a-leekie — a soup made by boiling chicken with leeks
- cod-liver oil — Cod liver oil is a thick yellow oil which is given as a medicine, especially to children, because it is full of vitamins A and D.
- codeclination — the astronomical coordinate complementary to the declination
- coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- coextensively — To the same extent.
- coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
- cohesive soil — sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water
- collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
- collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
- collaterality — the state of being collateral
- collateralize — to treat (a security) as collateral
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
- collectivized — (of agriculture, farms, factories, etc) organized according to the principles of collectivism
- collectivizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collectivize.
- collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
- college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- collodionized — Simple past tense and past participle of collodionize.
- colonel blimp — an elderly, pompous British reactionary, especially an army officer or government official.
- colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
- colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
- columelliform — like a columella.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- come to light — to be revealed
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commercial at — (character) "@". ASCII code 64. Common names: at sign, at, strudel. Rare: each, vortex, whorl, INTERCAL: whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape, cat, rose, cabbage, amphora. ITU-T: commercial at. The @ sign is used in an electronic mail address to separate the local part from the hostname. This dates back to July 1972 when Ray Tomlinson was designing the first[?] e-mail program. It is ironic that @ has become a trendy mark of Internet awareness since it is a very old symbol, derived from the latin preposition "ad" (at). Giorgio Stabile, a professor of history in Rome, has traced the symbol back to the Italian Renaissance in a Roman mercantile document signed by Francesco Lapi on 1536-05-04. In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (little ape-tail), in German "affenschwanz" (ape tail). The French name is "arobase". In Spain and Portugal it denotes a weight of about 25 pounds, the weight and the symbol are called "arroba". Italians call it "chiocciola" (snail). See @-party.
- commercialese — business jargon
- commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialism — Commercialism is the practice of making a lot of money from things without caring about their quality.
- commercialist — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
- commerciality — commercial quality or character; ability to produce a profit: Distributors were concerned about the film's commerciality compared with last year's successful pictures.