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

  • circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
  • civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
  • civil servant — A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.
  • civil service — The Civil Service of a country consists of its government departments and all the people who work in them. In many countries, the departments concerned with military and legal affairs are not part of the Civil Service.
  • civil society — the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society
  • civilizedness — having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.
  • claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • clairsentient — Exhibiting or pertaining to clairsentience.
  • clandestinely — characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.
  • clandestinity — secrecy; the quality of being clandestine
  • clarinettists — Plural form of clarinettist.
  • class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
  • class society — a society in which class distinctions are influential
  • classic blues — a type of city blues performed by a female singer accompanied by a small group
  • classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
  • 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
  • cleistothecia — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
  • cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
  • cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
  • client-server — (programming)   A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds. This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case. There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client. Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
  • clistothecium — cleistothecium.
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
  • closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
  • closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • 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.
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • coextensively — To the same extent.
  • cohesive soil — sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water
  • collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
  • collectivizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collectivize.
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
  • column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
  • commensalisms — a companion at table.
  • commercialese — business jargon
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