13-letter words containing ce
- cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
- cetyl alcohol — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 16 H 34 O, used chiefly as an emollient in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
- chance-medley — a sudden quarrel in which one party kills another; unintentional but not blameless killing
- chancelleries — Plural form of chancellery.
- chemoreceptor — a sensory receptor in a biological cell membrane to which an external molecule binds to generate a smell or taste sensation
- chief justice — A Chief Justice is the most important judge of a court of law, especially a supreme court.
- chief-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
- child process — (operating system) A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
- chimney piece — mantelpiece
- chimney place — an open hearth.
- chimneypieces — Plural form of chimneypiece.
- chloroacetone — a colorless, lachrymatory, poisonous liquid, C 3 H 5 ClO, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of insecticides and perfumes.
- chloromycetin — chloramphenicol
- ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- cinquecentist — an Italian artist or writer of the cinquecento
- circumference — The circumference of a circle, place, or round object is the distance around its edge.
- circumjacency — the state of being circumjacent
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- civil defence — Civil defence is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- civil service — The Civil Service of a country consists of its government departments and all the people who work in them. In many countries, the departments concerned with military and legal affairs are not part of the Civil Service.
- claiming race — a race in which each owner declares beforehand the price at which his or her horse will be offered for sale after the race
- clairaudience — the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing
- 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.
- closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
- co-dependence — joint dependence between two or more beings
- co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
- 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.
- coinheritance — joint inheritance
- commencements — Plural form of commencement.
- commerce city — a city in central Colorado.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- conceitedness — having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- concentrating — Present participle of concentrate.
- concentration — Concentration on something involves giving all your attention to it.
- concentrative — tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration
- concentrators — Plural form of concentrator.
- concentricity — having a common center, as circles or spheres.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- 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).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
- concert party — a musical entertainment popular in the early 20th century, esp one at a British seaside resort
- concert pitch — the frequency of 440 hertz assigned to the A above middle C