13-letter words containing se
- close to home — affecting sb personally
- close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- closed season — The closed season is the period of the year when it is prohibited to kill certain types of animal or fish.
- closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
- closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
- closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
- clothes horse — A clothes horse is a folding frame used inside someone's house to hang washing on while it dries.
- clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
- clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
- collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
- collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
- come up roses — If you say that everything is coming up roses for someone, you mean that everything is going well for them.
- commercialese — business jargon
- commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commiseration — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commiserative — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- common sennit — flat sennit.
- companion set — a set of fire irons on a stand
- completer set — a set of supplementary pieces that completes a set of dishes, as creamer, sugar bowl, platter, gravy boat, and vegetable dish.
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conic section — one of a group of curves formed by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone. It is either a circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola, depending on the eccentricity, e, which is constant for a particular curve e = 0 for a circle; e<1 for an ellipse; e = 1 for a parabola; e>1 for a hyperbola
- consecrations — Plural form of consecration.
- consectaneous — following logically; consequent
- consecutively — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- consenescence — decay, esp decay caused by ageing
- consenescency — consenescence
- consentaneous — accordant or consistent (with)
- consequent on — following as a result of
- consequential — Consequential means the same as consequent.
- conservancies — Plural form of conservancy.
- conservatives — Plural form of conservative.
- conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.
- conservatoire — A conservatoire is an institution where musicians are trained.
- conservatoria — Plural form of conservatorium.
- containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
- contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contextualise — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- convolvuluses — Plural form of convolvulus.
- coronaviruses — Plural form of coronavirus.
- council house — In Britain, a council house is a house that is owned by a local council and that people can rent at a low cost.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.