13-letter words containing l, u, c, i
- circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
- claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- clair de lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clair-de-lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clairaudience — the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing
- 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
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
- clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
- 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.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
- co-curricular — related but only complementary to the official curriculum, as a civic or service activity outside the classroom.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- coccobacillus — a spherelike bacillus.
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- cocultivation — the act of cultivating jointly
- coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- colloquialism — A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
- colloquialist — a skilled speaker
- colloquiality — a colloquial style
- colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- columelliform — like a columella.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
- communicology — the study of communication.
- commutability — The quality of being commutable.
- commutatively — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
- commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters
- 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