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14-letter words containing r, u, c

  • circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
  • circumposition — the act of circumposing
  • circumrotation — Rotation or revolution around an axis.
  • circumrotatory — Turning, rolling, or whirling round.
  • circumscissile — (of the dry dehiscent fruits of certain plants) opening completely by a transverse split
  • circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • circumspective — given to or marked by circumspection; watchful; cautious: His behavior was circumspective.
  • circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
  • circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
  • circus maximus — an amphitheatre in Rome, used in ancient times for chariot races, public games, etc
  • cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
  • citrus heights — a city in central California, near Sacramento.
  • ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • clifford trust — a type of living trust set up for at least a 10-year period, during which the income goes to a beneficiary and after which the principal reverts to the grantor.
  • clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
  • close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
  • close quarters — a narrow cramped space or position
  • closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
  • closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
  • clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
  • coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
  • code of honour — the standards of behaviour regarded as proper
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • colour palette — (graphics, hardware)   (colour look-up table, CLUT) A device which converts the logical colour numbers stored in each pixel of video memory into physical colours, normally represented as RGB triplets, that can be displayed on the monitor. The palette is simply a block of fast RAM which is addressed by the logical colour and whose output is split into the red, green and blue levels which drive the actual display (e.g. CRT). The number of entries (logical colours) in the palette is the total number of colours which can appear on screen simultaneously. The width of each entry determines the number of colours which the palette can be set to produce. A common example would be a palette of 256 colours (i.e. addressed by eight-bit pixel values) where each colour can be chosen from a total of 16.7 million colours (i.e. eight bits output for each of red, green and blue). Changes to the palette affect the whole screen at once and can be used to produce special effects which would be much slower to produce by updating pixels.
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
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