13-letter words containing a, d, r, e, s, c
- chasse gardee — a private hunting preserve.
- cheese spread — a processed cheese of smooth and spreadable consistency.
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
- christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
- conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.
- considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
- considerative — considerate
- constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- coresidential — relating to joint residency
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- danse macabre — dance of death
- data security — the protection of data stored on computers
- days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
- decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- deconsecrated — (of a church) having been transferred to secular use
- deconsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconsecrate.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.