15-letter words containing o, n, e, u
- combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
- come out on top — If a person, organization, or country comes out on top, they are more successful than the others that they have been competing with.
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
- common currency — If you say that an idea or belief has become common currency, you mean it is widely used and accepted.
- common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
- common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
- communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
- communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
- community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
- compton-burnett — Dame Ivy. 1884–1969, English novelist. Her novels include Men and Wives (1931) and Mother and Son (1955)
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- computer screen — the working area on the monitor of a computer
- computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
- conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
- conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
- concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
- concrete number — a number referring to a particular object or objects, as in three dogs, ten men
- concurrent lisp — (language) A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
- concurrent user — one of several simultaneous users of a computing resource such as a computer program or file
- conductiometric — conductometric
- conjunctiveness — the quality of being conjunctive
- connoisseurship — a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
- conscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- consciousnesses — Plural form of consciousness.
- consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
- consentaneously — In a consentaneous manner.
- consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- conspicuousness — Openness or exposure to the view; a state of being clearly visible.
- construct state — (in Semitic languages) the inflected form of a noun dependent on a following noun, with the combination expressing a genitive relationship, as Hebrew beth David “house of David,” where beth “house of” is the construct form of bayit “house.”.
- consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
- consumer choice — the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
- consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
- consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
- contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
- contentiousness — The state of being contentious.
- contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- contextualizing — Present participle of contextualize.