13-letter words containing i, c, o, n, l
- 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.
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- 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.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
- coastal plain — a plain extending along a coast.
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
- 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.
- 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)
- cocultivation — the act of cultivating jointly
- 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.
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- collaboration — Collaboration is the act of working together to produce a piece of work, especially a book or some research.
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- colligational — Relating to colligation.
- collisionally — in the manner of a collision or collisions
- collocational — of or relating to a collocation or collocations
- collodionized — Simple past tense and past participle of collodionize.
- colonel blimp — an elderly, pompous British reactionary, especially an army officer or government official.
- colonialistic — of or relating to colonialism
- colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
- coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- combinability — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinational — Of or pertaining to (a) combination.
- combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
- communicology — the study of communication.
- commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters
- companionable — If you describe a person as companionable, you mean they are friendly and pleasant to be with.
- companionably — possessing the qualities of a good companion; pleasant to be with; congenial.
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.