cumulo

"The thunderstorm clouds are called cumulo-nimbus.

The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

So unless you are going to be a smart-arse and start the journey with a C and only inform your three-year-old the answer was "cumulo-nimbus cloud" when you get to Cornwall seven hours later, then it's a non-starter.

Why I-spy is bad for long car journeys 2010

As we left that set that day, the memories of Osama Bin Laden and the havoc he created in this country were but a cumulo-nimbus cloud pushed back to the recesses of my mind.

Michealene Cristini Risley: Time to Heal Osama Trauma to the American Psyche 2009

If the Pitons are remnants of cumulo-domes, and not volcanic necks or plugs which are common, they are geologically unique.

Pitons Management Area, Saint Lucia 2008

Piluts awlso haz teh turm: “cumulo-granite,” 4 clowdz wut haz mountain peaks buried in dem.

OH - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

In front of my city, under that steel canopy and lowering cumulo-nimban skies, the setting was first rate.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

Whereas cumulo form are the most overt and energetic expression of it.

WSJ: House Energy report on the "mutual admiration society" « Climate Audit 2006

I heard that Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame who started “LoudCloud” a few years back is now starting cumulo. nimb.us.

Meet New (Random) Friends at Fo.rtuito.us Michael Arrington 2005

They had emerged at the top of the high-stacked cumulo-nimbus, and now began lazily to drift down its contours, as Fenchurch eased Arthur in turn from his clothes, prised him free of them till all were gone, winding their surprised way down into the enveloping whiteness.

So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984

His ship began plunging recklessly into a floor of dirty gray cotton, thick cumulo-nimbus clouds.

Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978