13-letter words containing o, c, n, e
- 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
- co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- coca-colonize — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
- cocaine habit — an addiction to cocaine
- cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- cockney bream — a young snapper fish
- 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.
- coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
- coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
- code napoleon — the civil code of France, promulgated between 1804 and 1810, comprising the main body of French civil law
- code position — (character) An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
- codeclination — the astronomical coordinate complementary to the declination
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- coelenterates — Plural form of coelenterate.
- coenzyme q 10 — a naturally occurring, fat-soluble, vitaminlike enzyme found in a variety of foods and synthesized in the body: sold as a dietary supplement for its antioxidant properties.
- coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- coextensively — To the same extent.
- coffin corner — any of the corners of a football field formed by a goal line and side line: punts are sometimes directed to a coffin corner so that the ball will go out of bounds near the opponent's goal line
- coffin dodger — an old person
- cogent prolog — (language) A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
- coinheritance — joint inheritance
- cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
- coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
- collectedness — The state or quality of being collected.
- college-bound — intending to go to college
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- collodionized — Simple past tense and past participle of collodionize.
- cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
- colonel blimp — an elderly, pompous British reactionary, especially an army officer or government official.
- colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
- colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- colorlessness — The state of being colorless.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper