13-letter words containing r, u, n, o
- cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
- cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
- charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
- chlorocruorin — an oxygen-carrying substance that is found in the tissues of members of the division Annelida that is green in colour when oxygen is not present
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- circumcisions — Plural form of circumcision.
- circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
- circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
- circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
- co-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- 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.
- coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- common ground — If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.
- communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
- communicators — Plural form of communicator.
- communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communitarian — a member of a communist community
- commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters
- commuter town — a town that is home mainly to commuters
- 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.
- 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
- conclusionary — conclusory
- concrete noun — a noun that refers to a material object, as for example horse
- concurrencies — Plural form of concurrency.
- 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.
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.