13-letter words containing l, u, m
- circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
- claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
- coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
- coalesced sum — (theory) (Or "smash sum") In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the non-bottom elements of both domains, tagged to show which part of the sum they come from, and a new bottom element. D (+) E = { bottom(D(+)E) } U { (0,d) | d in D, d /= bottom(D) } U { (1,e) | e in E, e /= bottom(E) } The bottoms of the constituent domains are coalesced into a single bottom in the sum. This may be generalised to any number of domains. The ordering is bottom(D(+)E) <= v For all v in D(+)E (i,v1) <= (j,v2) iff i = j & v1 <= v2 "<=" is usually written as LaTeX \sqsubseteq and "(+)" as LaTeX \oplus - a "+" in a circle.
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- colloquialism — A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
- colour camera — a camera that takes colour photographs
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- columelliform — like a columella.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- 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 belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
- 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.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- computational — Computational means using computers.
- computer file — file
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- 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
- concurrent ml — (language) (CML) A concurrent extension of SML/NJ written by J. Reppy at Cornell University in 1990. CML supports dynamic thread creation and synchronous message passing on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class continuations. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both stream I/O and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- contextualism — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
- cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
- corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
- cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
- costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
- costimulatory — Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.