14-letter words containing i, n, s, u, c
- chinese houses — a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.
- chinese puzzle — an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
- circumposition — the act of circumposing
- circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- colliquescence — the potential for turning to liquid
- colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
- colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
- communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
- communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
- communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
- 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.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- conclusionally — the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
- conclusiveness — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- 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.
- 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.
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- consanguineous — having the same ancestor; closely related
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constituencies — Plural form of constituency.
- constitutional — Constitutional means relating to the constitution of a particular country or organization.
- constitutively — In a constitutive manner.
- constructional — the act or art of constructing.