13-letter words containing s, e, u
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- cinquecentist — an Italian artist or writer of the cinquecento
- circumambages — round-about methods
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- circumscribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumscribe.
- 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
- citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- classic blues — a type of city blues performed by a female singer accompanied by a small group
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
- coalesced sum — (theory) (Or "smash sum") In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the non-bottom elements of both domains, tagged to show which part of the sum they come from, and a new bottom element. D (+) E = { bottom(D(+)E) } U { (0,d) | d in D, d /= bottom(D) } U { (1,e) | e in E, e /= bottom(E) } The bottoms of the constituent domains are coalesced into a single bottom in the sum. This may be generalised to any number of domains. The ordering is bottom(D(+)E) <= v For all v in D(+)E (i,v1) <= (j,v2) iff i = j & v1 <= v2 "<=" is usually written as LaTeX \sqsubseteq and "(+)" as LaTeX \oplus - a "+" in a circle.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- 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
- come a stumer — to crash financially
- come up roses — If you say that everything is coming up roses for someone, you mean that everything is going well for them.
- come up short — disappoint
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- 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.
- 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
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.