13-letter words containing a, n
- cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
- casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
- casing string — A casing string is a series of lengths of steel pipe which are fitted together and put into a well.
- cassivelaunus — 1st century bc, British chieftain, king of the Catuvellauni tribe, who organized resistance to Caesar's invasion of Britain (54 bc)
- 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
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
- 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
- catatonically — in a catatonic or exceedingly rigid manner
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- catch the sun — to become slightly sunburnt
- catechization — The act of catechizing.
- catecholamine — any of a group of hormones that are catechol derivatives, esp adrenaline and noradrenaline
- catechumenate — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
- cationization — Treatment with cations (usually in an electrolytic bath).
- 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)
- cause offence — If you cause offence or give offence to someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.
- causelessness — the quality or state of having no cause or reason
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
- cave painting — a painting done by prehistoric people in caves
- cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- ceaselessness — the quality of being uninterrupted or not stopping
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- cell membrane — a very thin membrane, composed of lipids and protein, that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell and controls the passage of substances into and out of the cell
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- centenionalis — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued by Diocletian as the 100th part of a solidus, later greatly debased.
- center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
- 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 angle — an angle whose vertex is at the centre of a circle
- central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- central india — a former political agency in central India uniting various native states and subordinate agencies: now incorporated into Madhya Pradesh.
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
- 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
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
- centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- cephalization — (in the evolution of animals) development of a head by the concentration of feeding and sensory organs and nervous tissue at the anterior end
- cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections