13-letter words containing a, c, y, r, o
- bloody caesar — a drink consisting of vodka, juice made from clams and tomatoes, and usually Worcester sauce and hot pepper sauce
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- cacodyl group — the univalent group (CH 3) 2 As−, derived from arsine.
- café coronary — a fatal choking condition brought on when food, dentures, etc. lodge in a person's throat while he or she is eating: it is often misinterpreted as a heart attack
- calvary cross — a Latin cross with a representation of three steps beneath it
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carbonylation — the introduction of a carbonyl group into a compound through chemical reaction
- carboxylation — a chemical reaction that introduces a carboxyl group into a molecule or compound, forming a carboxylic acid or a carboxylate
- carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carnivorously — In a carnivorous manner.
- carolina lily — a bulbous lily, Lilium michauxii, of the southeastern U.S., having large, spotted, orange-red flowers with recurved petals.
- carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
- carry through — If you carry something through, you do it or complete it, often in spite of difficulties.
- carry too far — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
- castro valley — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
- centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- cervicography — a method of cervical screening in which the neck of the uterus is photographed to facilitate the early detection of cancer
- charcoal grey — a very dark grey colour
- charley horse — People sometimes refer to a cramp in the muscles of their leg or arm as a charley horse.
- cherry tomato — a miniature tomato not much bigger than a cherry
- chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
- chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
- chromatically — In a chromatic manner.
- chromatolysis — the dissolution of stained material, such as chromatin in injured cells
- chromatolytic — relating to chromatolysis
- chromosomally — With reference to chromosomes.
- chromotherapy — the use of colour and light as a restorative therapy and to promote mental and physical well-being
- chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
- clairvoyantly — In a clairvoyant way; by means of clairvoyance.
- clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
- claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
- climatography — an account of a region's climate
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate