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15-letter words containing o, u, n

  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
  • circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
  • city councilman — a member of a city council
  • class inclusion — the relation between two classes in which all members of one class are included in the other, as in the proposition “All humans are animals.”.
  • class-conscious — Someone who is class-conscious is very aware of the differences between the various classes of people in society, and often has a strong feeling of belonging to a particular class.
  • clock frequency — clock rate
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • closed-end fund — A closed-end fund is an investment with a limited number of shares that does not allow new investors.
  • cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
  • cmu common lisp — (language)   (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • coconsciousness — the state or position of being coconscious
  • coconut matting — a form of coarse matting made from the fibrous husk of the coconut
  • code of conduct — The code of conduct for a group or organization is an agreement on rules of behaviour for the members of that group or organization.
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • coinstantaneous — taking place at exactly the same moment
  • collective noun — A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
  • college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • colour contrast — the change in the appearance of a colour surrounded by another colour; for example, grey looks bluish if surrounded by yellow
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • 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
  • communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • communicational — relating to or characterized by communication
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communion cloth — corporal3 .
  • 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
  • communist china — China, People's Republic of.
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • communistically — In a communistic manner.
  • community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
  • compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
  • compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
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