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13-letter words containing r, e, t, u

  • circumambient — surrounding
  • circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
  • circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • circumstances — someone's financial situation
  • circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
  • circumvallate — to surround with a defensive fortification
  • circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
  • clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
  • clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • 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.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
  • coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
  • column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
  • come a stumer — to crash financially
  • come up short — disappoint
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
  • communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
  • commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
  • commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters
  • commuter town — a town that is home mainly to commuters
  • computer chip — a small integrated circuit of a kind used in computers
  • computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
  • computer file — file
  • computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
  • computer geek — (jargon)   (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
  • computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
  • computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • concrete noun — a noun that refers to a material object, as for example horse
  • concurrent ml — (language)   (CML) A concurrent extension of SML/NJ written by J. Reppy at Cornell University in 1990. CML supports dynamic thread creation and synchronous message passing on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class continuations. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both stream I/O and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bugs).
  • conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
  • conjecturally — of, of the nature of, or involving conjecture; problematical: Theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are highly conjectural.
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