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14-letter words containing u, n, c

  • circumrotation — Rotation or revolution around an axis.
  • circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
  • circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
  • cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
  • cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
  • city of dundee — a council area in E Scotland. Pop: 143 090 (2003 est). Area: 65 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • ciudad guayana — an industrial conurbation in E Venezuela, on the River Orinoco: iron and steel processing, gold mining. Pop: 807 000 (2005 est)
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
  • close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
  • coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
  • code of honour — the standards of behaviour regarded as proper
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • colliquescence — the potential for turning to liquid
  • colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
  • colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • colourlessness — The state or quality of being colourless.
  • come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • come to nought — If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your efforts come to nought.
  • command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
  • common assault — an action that causes a person to fear that he or she is in danger of violent attack
  • common council — the local legislative body of a municipal government.
  • common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
  • communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • communion wine — the wine used in the communion service
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