14-letter words containing l, u, c, r, e
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- 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.
- clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
- close quarters — a narrow cramped space or position
- closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
- closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
- clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- 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.
- colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
- colourlessness — The state or quality of being colourless.
- 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.
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- computer model — a model of a process or object created on a computer
- 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
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- concurrent clu — (language) A programming language extending CLU for concurrent processes, developed by by Hamilton in 1984.
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- connaturalness — connaturality
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
- coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
- councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
- counter-boulle — contre-partie.
- counterassault — a counterattack
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- counterculture — Counterculture is a set of values, ideas, and ways of behaving that are completely different from those of the rest of society.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.