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13-letter words containing n, o, e

  • chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
  • chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
  • chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
  • chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
  • churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
  • ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
  • cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
  • cinco de mayo — May 5, anniversary of the victory of Mexico over French forces at Puebla in 1862: observed by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
  • cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
  • cinnamon teal — a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.
  • circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
  • claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
  • cleaner tooth — a saw tooth for cleaning loose chips from a kerf.
  • clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
  • clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
  • cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
  • 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
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clinopyroxene — a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having a monoclinic crystal structure, such as augite, diopside, or jadeite
  • cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
  • close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
  • 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-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed season — The closed season is the period of the year when it is prohibited to kill certain types of animal or fish.
  • closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
  • 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.
  • closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
  • closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
  • cloven-footed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
  • cloven-hoofed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
  • clown anemone — a widely distributed anemone fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, having broad bands of orange and white: popular in home aquariums.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • co-dependence — joint dependence between two or more beings
  • co-dependency — a state of mutual dependence between two people, esp when one partner relies emotionally on supporting and caring for the other partner
  • co-management — the practice of managing something jointly
  • co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
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