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13-letter words containing s, e, c, l, u

  • 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.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
  • column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
  • compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
  • compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
  • conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
  • conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
  • conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
  • concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
  • consecutively — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
  • consequential — Consequential means the same as consequent.
  • consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
  • constituently — serving to compose or make up a thing; component: the constituent parts of a motor.
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
  • consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
  • contentiously — tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew.
  • contextualise — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualism — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
  • contextualist — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
  • convolvuluses — Plural form of convolvulus.
  • coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
  • cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
  • council house — In Britain, a council house is a house that is owned by a local council and that people can rent at a low cost.
  • councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
  • counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
  • courtesy call — a formal visit
  • cramer's rule — a method involving the determinant of the coefficients, for calculating a unique solution for a given system of linear equations.
  • crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
  • crassulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Crassulaceae, a family of herbaceous or shrubby flowering plants with fleshy succulent leaves, including the houseleeks and stonecrops
  • credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • cross-utilize — to make use of in an additional or different way.
  • crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
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