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13-letter words containing a, s, c, n

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 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 asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
  • central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • 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
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
  • chairmanships — Plural form of chairmanship.
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • championships — Plural form of championship.
  • chancelleries — Plural form of chancellery.
  • chandrasekhar — Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910–95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983
  • chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
  • chapman stick — an electronically amplified musical instrument with ten or twelve strings and a fretted neck, which is played by striking the strings against the frets with the fingers
  • charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
  • charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • chastisements — severe criticism; a rebuke or strong reprimand.
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • cheval screen — a fire screen, usually with a cloth panel, having supports at the ends and mounted on legs.
  • chicken snake — rat snake
  • chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
  • chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.
  • chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
  • chinese anise — star anise.
  • chinese-anise — Also called Chinese anise. a shrub or small tree, Illicium verum, of China, having white flowers that turn purple and bearing anise-scented, star-shaped clusters of carminative fruit.
  • chinling shan — Qinling Shan
  • chlamydomonas — a green, fresh water alga of the class Chlorophyceae that is flagellate and made up of a single cell
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