13-letter words containing a, n, c, t, i
- corinthianize — to live a promiscuous life
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- cornification — the process of producing a horn or horny substance
- cornish pasty — A Cornish pasty is a small pie with meat and vegetables inside.
- corporational — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
- corporisation — The forming into one body; embodiment.
- correlational — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
- corroboration — the act of corroborating.
- corticospinal — Of, or pertaining to, or connecting the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.
- cosignatories — Plural form of cosignatory.
- cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
- cost analysis — an economic evaluation
- costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
- cottage piano — a small upright piano
- count against — If something counts against you, it may cause you to be rejected or punished, or cause people to have a lower opinion of you.
- countenancing — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
- counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
- counteracting — Present participle of counteract.
- counteraction — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- counteractive — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- counterstains — Plural form of counterstain.
- countertactic — an opposing tactic
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
- cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
- credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- credentialled — having credentials
- credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
- credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
- crenellations — the battlements on a building
- crimean tatar — a member of a Turkic people who lived in the Crimea before emigration to Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries and deportations to Soviet central Asia after World War II.
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- crinicultural — of or relating to hair growth
- crop rotation — the system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility
- cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
- crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
- crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
- cryptanalysis — the study of codes and ciphers; cryptography
- cryptanalytic — Of or pertaining to cryptanalysis or cryptanalytics.
- cryptoxanthin — a carotenoid pigment, C40H56O, in butter, eggs, and various plants, that can be converted into vitamin A in the body
- crystallinity — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.