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13-letter words containing m, c, l

  • clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
  • class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
  • claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
  • clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
  • cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
  • climactically — In a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.
  • climatic zone — any of the eight principal zones, roughly demarcated by lines of latitude, into which the earth can be divided on the basis of climate
  • climatization — to acclimate to a new environment.
  • climatography — an account of a region's climate
  • climatologist — A climatologist is someone who studies climates.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing lily — a climbing lily of the genus Gloriosa, native to Africa and Asia, having showy red and yellow flowers.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
  • cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
  • clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
  • clistothecium — cleistothecium.
  • close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
  • close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
  • close to home — affecting sb personally
  • close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
  • closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
  • closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
  • clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
  • 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
  • clown anemone — a widely distributed anemone fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, having broad bands of orange and white: popular in home aquariums.
  • 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
  • coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
  • 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.
  • cochleariform — having a spoon shape
  • cohomological — of or relating to cohomology
  • cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
  • coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
  • colloquialism — A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
  • colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
  • colonel blimp — an elderly, pompous British reactionary, especially an army officer or government official.
  • colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
  • 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.
  • combinability — capable of combining or being combined.
  • combinational — Of or pertaining to (a) combination.
  • combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
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