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13-letter words containing a, c, t, e, s

  • carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
  • 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 receipts — the money a business receives from its customers over a specified period
  • cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
  • cash-strapped — If a person or organization is cash-strapped, they do not have enough money to buy or pay for the things they want or need.
  • cassette deck — a machine that is used for listening to cassettes and sometimes also for recording them
  • cassette tape — a recording made on magnetic tape inside a plastic container, to be inserted into a tape deck
  • cassette-tape — Also called cassette tape. a compact case containing a length of magnetic tape that runs between two small reels: used for recording or playback of audio or video in a tape recorder, cassette deck, video camera, or VCR, and for storage of data by some small computer systems. See also audiocassette, videocassette.
  • 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 wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
  • 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.
  • 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 distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
  • 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.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
  • catch the sun — to become slightly sunburnt
  • catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
  • catechistical — Pertaining to a catechism.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • caustic curve — a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
  • centenionalis — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued by Diocletian as the 100th part of a solidus, later greatly debased.
  • center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
  • central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
  • central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
  • centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
  • cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
  • chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
  • chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
  • chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
  • character set — a set of characters to display on a computer screen or be printed out that are all of the same design
  • characterised — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • characterises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of characterise.
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