13-letter words containing o, c, u, l
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
- ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
- 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.
- charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
- charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
- chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- checkout line — A checkout line is a line of customers waiting to pay at a checkout counter.
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- 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)
- child custody — custody (def 4).
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- child-custody — custody (def 4).
- chlorocruorin — an oxygen-carrying substance that is found in the tissues of members of the division Annelida that is green in colour when oxygen is not present
- chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- church school — A church school is a school which has a special relationship with a particular branch of the Christian church, and where there is strong emphasis on worship and the teaching of religion.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- chylophyllous — having fleshy leaves, as certain desert plants.
- circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- 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.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
- 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.
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.