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13-letter words containing n, u, c, l, e

  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
  • ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
  • cerulean blue — a light-blue to strong greenish-blue color.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
  • cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
  • chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
  • chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • 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
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • coco language — (language)   (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
  • coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
  • coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • 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.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
  • 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
  • concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
  • 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).
  • conceptuality — a conceptualization
  • conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
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