13-letter words containing i, s, u, e
- 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.
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- 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)
- chief justice — A Chief Justice is the most important judge of a court of law, especially a supreme court.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- cinquecentist — an Italian artist or writer of the cinquecento
- circumambages — round-about methods
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- circumscribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumscribe.
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
- citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- classic blues — a type of city blues performed by a female singer accompanied by a small group
- 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
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- 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.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- 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.
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- 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).
- concupiscence — strong desire, esp sexual desire
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- concurrencies — Plural form of concurrency.
- conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- confusingness — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
- conscientious — Someone who is conscientious is very careful to do their work properly.
- consciousness — Your consciousness is your mind and your thoughts.
- 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.