13-letter words containing u, n, s, o
- chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
- chicken louse — a louse, Menopon pallidum (or gallinae); a parasite of poultry: order Mallophaga (bird lice)
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- circumcisions — Plural form of circumcision.
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- 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.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- communicators — Plural form of communicator.
- communisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of communization.
- 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.
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- 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).
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- conclusionary — conclusory
- concupiscence — strong desire, esp sexual desire
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- concurrencies — Plural form of concurrency.
- conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- conduct sheet — a form for detailing information about a person's offences and punishments
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- confusingness — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
- congruousness — The state or quality of being congruous.
- conjugateness — The quality of being conjugate.
- conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.
- consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
- consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
- conscientious — Someone who is conscientious is very careful to do their work properly.
- consciousness — Your consciousness is your mind and your thoughts.
- consectaneous — following logically; consequent