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13-letter words containing a, c, o, s

  • car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
  • carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
  • carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
  • carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
  • carias andino — Tiburcio [tee-voor-syaw] /tiˈvur syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1968, Honduran lawyer, soldier, and statesman: president 1933–49.
  • carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
  • carnivorously — In a carnivorous manner.
  • carol service — a service, held in a church around Christmas, at which Christmas carols are sung
  • carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
  • case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
  • case soap iii — Version of SOAP assembly language for IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • cased edition — a hardback book sold in a protective box that is open at one edge so that you can see the spine of the book
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • cassel yellow — a lemon-yellow color.
  • castellations — Defensive or decorative parapets with regularly spaced notches; battlements.
  • caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • castro valley — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • casual labour — people who are employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • casualisation — (economics) The process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.
  • casualization — the altering of working practices so that regular workers are re-employed on a casual or short-term basis
  • cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
  • catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
  • catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
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