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13-letter words containing a, r, i, s

  • chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
  • chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
  • chiropractics — The practice of a chiropractor.
  • chiropractors — Plural form of chiropractor.
  • chloroplastic — a plastid containing chlorophyll.
  • chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
  • cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
  • chorepiscopal — (in early Christianity) relating to or connected with a local bishop
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • chrematistics — Study of wealth.
  • chrestomathic — (of teaching or learning) That has a practical use.
  • christian era — the period beginning with the year of Christ's birth. Dates in this era are labelled ad, those previous to it bc
  • christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
  • christiansand — former name of Kristiansand.
  • christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
  • christmas day — Christmas Day is the 25th of December, when Christmas is celebrated.
  • christmas eve — Christmas Eve is the 24th of December, the day before Christmas Day.
  • christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
  • christmastime — the Christmas season, traditionally from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day or to Epiphany (Jan. 6)
  • chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
  • chromatolysis — the dissolution of stained material, such as chromatin in injured cells
  • chromesthesia — (neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia.
  • church slavic — a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.
  • churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
  • ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
  • cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • circularising — Present participle of circularise.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • circumstances — someone's financial situation
  • circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
  • 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
  • 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.
  • claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • clairsentient — Exhibiting or pertaining to clairsentience.
  • clarinettists — Plural form of clarinettist.
  • class library — (programming)   A library of reusable classes for use with an object-oriented programming system.
  • clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
  • 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 sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
  • clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
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