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13-letter words containing s, u, c

  • churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
  • churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • chylophyllous — having fleshy leaves, as certain desert plants.
  • cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
  • cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
  • cinquecentist — an Italian artist or writer of the cinquecento
  • circularising — Present participle of circularise.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • circumcisions — Plural form of circumcision.
  • 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.
  • circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
  • 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
  • clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • 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 physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
  • 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.
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
  • co-authorship — the state a coauthor
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • 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
  • coccobacillus — a spherelike bacillus.
  • 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
  • colloquialism — A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
  • colloquialist — a skilled speaker
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