13-letter words containing u, r, o
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- 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 chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- co-curricular — related but only complementary to the official curriculum, as a civic or service activity outside the classroom.
- co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
- co-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
- 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
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
- coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
- coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- 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.
- collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
- colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
- colour camera — a camera that takes colour photographs
- colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- columelliform — like a columella.
- column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
- come a stumer — to crash financially
- come up roses — If you say that everything is coming up roses for someone, you mean that everything is going well for them.
- come up short — disappoint
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- 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.
- common ground — If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.
- communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
- communicators — Plural form of communicator.
- communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communitarian — a member of a communist community
- commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
- commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters
- commuter town — a town that is home mainly to commuters
- computer chip — a small integrated circuit of a kind used in computers
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computer file — file