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14-letter words containing l, a, o, u

  • chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
  • cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
  • church, alonzo — Alonzo Church
  • circular error — Horology. loss of isochronism in a pendulum moving through circular arcs of different sizes: sometimes avoided by causing the pendulum to move through cycloidal arcs.
  • circumcolumnar — surrounding a column.
  • circumlittoral — adjoining the shore
  • ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • 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.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • close quarters — a narrow cramped space or position
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
  • cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
  • coeliac plexus — the network of sympathetic nerves situated behind the stomach that supply the abdominal organs
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • colloquialisms — Plural form of colloquialism.
  • colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
  • colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
  • colour palette — (graphics, hardware)   (colour look-up table, CLUT) A device which converts the logical colour numbers stored in each pixel of video memory into physical colours, normally represented as RGB triplets, that can be displayed on the monitor. The palette is simply a block of fast RAM which is addressed by the logical colour and whose output is split into the red, green and blue levels which drive the actual display (e.g. CRT). The number of entries (logical colours) in the palette is the total number of colours which can appear on screen simultaneously. The width of each entry determines the number of colours which the palette can be set to produce. A common example would be a palette of 256 colours (i.e. addressed by eight-bit pixel values) where each colour can be chosen from a total of 16.7 million colours (i.e. eight bits output for each of red, green and blue). Changes to the palette affect the whole screen at once and can be used to produce special effects which would be much slower to produce by updating pixels.
  • columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
  • command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • common assault — an action that causes a person to fear that he or she is in danger of violent attack
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
  • 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.
  • conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
  • conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
  • 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.
  • conduplication — (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
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