13-letter words containing n, i, u
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
- citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
- 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.
- clairaudience — the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
- 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-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- 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
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- common iguana — the green iguana (Iguana iguana)
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
- communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
- communicating — making or having a direct connection from one room to another
- communication — Communications are the systems and processes that are used to communicate or broadcast information, especially by means of electricity or radio waves.
- communicative — Someone who is communicative talks to people, for example about their feelings, and tells people things.
- communicators — Plural form of communicator.
- communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communicology — the study of communication.
- communion cup — a chalice from which a communicant drinks.
- communisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of communization.
- communitarian — a member of a communist community
- communization — The act or process of communizing.
- commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters
- company union — an unaffiliated union of workers usually restricted to a single business enterprise
- 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 time — compound meter
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- computational — Computational means using computers.
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- 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
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).