13-letter words containing a, r, s
- chromesthesia — (neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia.
- chromosomally — With reference to chromosomes.
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
- 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.).
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- 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.
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clarinettists — Plural form of clarinettist.
- class library — (programming) A library of reusable classes for use with an object-oriented programming system.
- class teacher — a teacher who teaches a class
- class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
- class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- 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 harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread