13-letter words containing i, l, u, s, o
- celluliferous — making or consisting of small cells
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
- chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
- chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
- charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
- chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
- child custody — custody (def 4).
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- child-custody — custody (def 4).
- chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- 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
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- 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.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- coccobacillus — a spherelike bacillus.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- colloquialism — A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
- colloquialist — a skilled speaker
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- 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.
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conclusionary — conclusory
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
- consecutively — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- consequential — Consequential means the same as consequent.
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- conspicuously — easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable: a conspicuous error.
- constituently — serving to compose or make up a thing; component: the constituent parts of a motor.
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.