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13-letter words containing a, r, n, e, t

  • cap-and-trade — denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment
  • carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
  • carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
  • carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
  • carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
  • carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
  • cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
  • carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
  • carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
  • carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
  • carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
  • carpenter ant — any of a genus (Camponotus) of large ants that build nests in wooden buildings, tree trunks, etc. by gnawing out a complicated series of chambers
  • carpenter bee — any large solitary bee of the genus Xylocopa and related genera that lays its eggs in tunnels bored into wood or in plant stems: family Apidae
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
  • carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
  • carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
  • carrie nation — Carry or Carrie (Amelia Moore) 1846–1911, U.S. temperance leader.
  • carry the can — to take the responsibility for some misdemeanour, etc (on behalf of)
  • carte blanche — If someone gives you carte blanche, they give you the authority to do whatever you think is right.
  • cartelization — The act of cartelizing.
  • carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
  • catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
  • cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
  • chain printer — a line printer in which the type is on a continuous chain, used to print computer output
  • chain reactor — reactor (def 4).
  • charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
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