13-letter words containing a, r, e, c, i
- citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- ciudad juarez — a city in N Mexico, in Chihuahua state on the Río Grande, opposite El Paso, Texas. Pop: 1 469 000 (2005 est)
- ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
- civil servant — A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.
- claiming race — a race in which each owner declares beforehand the price at which his or her horse will be offered for sale after the race
- claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
- clair de lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clair-de-lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clairaudience — the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing
- clairsentient — Exhibiting or pertaining to clairsentience.
- clarinettists — Plural form of clarinettist.
- claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
- clear the air — to rid a situation of tension or discord by settling misunderstandings, etc
- clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
- 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.
- clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
- clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
- clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
- clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
- clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
- clearing-line — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
- coinheritance — joint inheritance
- cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
- collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
- collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
- collaterality — the state of being collateral
- collateralize — to treat (a security) as collateral
- college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
- commemoration — the act or an instance of commemorating
- commemorative — A commemorative object or event is intended to make people remember a particular event or person.
- commercial at — (character) "@". ASCII code 64. Common names: at sign, at, strudel. Rare: each, vortex, whorl, INTERCAL: whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape, cat, rose, cabbage, amphora. ITU-T: commercial at. The @ sign is used in an electronic mail address to separate the local part from the hostname. This dates back to July 1972 when Ray Tomlinson was designing the first[?] e-mail program. It is ironic that @ has become a trendy mark of Internet awareness since it is a very old symbol, derived from the latin preposition "ad" (at). Giorgio Stabile, a professor of history in Rome, has traced the symbol back to the Italian Renaissance in a Roman mercantile document signed by Francesco Lapi on 1536-05-04. In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (little ape-tail), in German "affenschwanz" (ape tail). The French name is "arobase". In Spain and Portugal it denotes a weight of about 25 pounds, the weight and the symbol are called "arroba". Italians call it "chiocciola" (snail). See @-party.
- commercialese — business jargon
- commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialism — Commercialism is the practice of making a lot of money from things without caring about their quality.