13-letter words containing s, p, e, n, c
- chosen people — any of various peoples believing themselves to be chosen by God, esp the Jews
- chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
- 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.
- co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- code position — (character) An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
- colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- compactedness — the state of being compacted
- companies act — (in Britain) any of various laws that govern the formation, dissolution, and management of companies
- companion set — a set of fire irons on a stand
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- company store — a retail store operated by a company for the convenience of the employees, who are required to buy from the store.
- compare notes — to exchange opinions
- compass plane — a plane for smoothing curved surfaces.
- compassionate — If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering.
- 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.
- compensations — Plural form of compensation.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- completedness — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completionist — (in a video game) a player who attempts to complete every challenge and earn every achievement or trophy: I’m not really a completionist, so I skipped the side missions and focused on the main story quests.
- complexedness — complexity
- compos mentis — of sound mind; sane
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- comprehension — Comprehension is the ability to understand something.
- comprehensive — Something that is comprehensive includes everything that is needed or relevant.
- compressional — relating to compression
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- 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).
- concupiscence — strong desire, esp sexual desire
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- confessorship — the office or function of a confessor
- conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
- conspiratress — a woman who conspires
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- contemplators — Plural form of contemplator.
- contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
- copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
- copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
- corespondents — Plural form of corespondent.