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13-letter words containing o, l, e, n

  • 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.
  • coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • code napoleon — the civil code of France, promulgated between 1804 and 1810, comprising the main body of French civil law
  • codeclination — the astronomical coordinate complementary to the declination
  • coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coelenterates — Plural form of coelenterate.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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