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

  • 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.
  • 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
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • commercialese — business jargon
  • commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • commercialism — Commercialism is the practice of making a lot of money from things without caring about their quality.
  • commercialist — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
  • compressional — relating to compression
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • congressional — A congressional policy, action, or person relates to the United States Congress.
  • considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consideringly — in a considering manner
  • constrainable — able to be constrained
  • constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • containerless — having no container
  • contrastively — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
  • contraversial — Misspelling of controversial.
  • controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
  • coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • core analysis — Core analysis is the process of studying a sample of rock in a laboratory.
  • coreligionist — an adherent of the same religion as another
  • coresidential — relating to joint residency
  • corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
  • coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
  • councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
  • counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
  • counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
  • crack a smile — to break into a smile
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
  • crenellations — the battlements on a building
  • criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
  • criticalities — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
  • cross-selling — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
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