13-letter words containing o, s, l
- cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
- coalesced sum — (theory) (Or "smash sum") In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the non-bottom elements of both domains, tagged to show which part of the sum they come from, and a new bottom element. D (+) E = { bottom(D(+)E) } U { (0,d) | d in D, d /= bottom(D) } U { (1,e) | e in E, e /= bottom(E) } The bottoms of the constituent domains are coalesced into a single bottom in the sum. This may be generalised to any number of domains. The ordering is bottom(D(+)E) <= v For all v in D(+)E (i,v1) <= (j,v2) iff i = j & v1 <= v2 "<=" is usually written as LaTeX \sqsubseteq and "(+)" as LaTeX \oplus - a "+" in a circle.
- coastal plain — a plain extending along a coast.
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- coatzacoalcos — city in EC Mexico, in Veracruz state: pop. 233,000
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- 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.
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
- coccobacillus — a spherelike bacillus.
- cocos islands — a group of 27 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Java: a Territory of Australia since 1955. Pop: 596 (2010). Area: 13 sq km (5 sq miles)
- coelenterates — Plural form of coelenterate.
- coextensively — To the same extent.
- cohesive soil — sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
- collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- collectedness — The state or quality of being collected.
- collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
- collectivizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collectivize.
- collectorates — Plural form of collectorate.
- collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- collisionally — in the manner of a collision or collisions
- colloquialism — A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
- colloquialist — a skilled speaker
- colonialistic — of or relating to colonialism
- 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.
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- colposcopical — of or relating to the colposcope
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- come to blows — to fight
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commercialese — business jargon