14-letter words containing n, u, l
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- colliquescence — the potential for turning to liquid
- colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
- colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
- colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
- colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
- colourlessness — The state or quality of being colourless.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
- command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- common assault — an action that causes a person to fear that he or she is in danger of violent attack
- common council — the local legislative body of a municipal government.
- communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
- community life — the life and activities of a community
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
- conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualise.
- conceptualists — Plural form of conceptualist.
- conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- conceptualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualize.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- conclusionally — the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
- conclusiveness — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- concupiscently — In a concupiscent manner; with concupiscence.
- concurrent clu — (language) A programming language extending CLU for concurrent processes, developed by by Hamilton in 1984.
- conductibility — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- conductor loss — Conductor loss is loss occurring in a conductor due to the flow of current.
- conduplication — (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
- conglutination — glued together; adhering.
- congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- congratulation — the act of congratulating
- congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
- connaturalness — connaturality