13-letter words containing c, a, m, r, o, s
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
- crash program — a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem: a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.
- cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
- custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- customer care — the work of looking after customers and ensuring their satisfaction with one's business and its goods or services
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- entomostracan — any small crustacean of the group (formerly subclass) Entomostraca, including the branchiopods, ostracods, and copepods
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- force a smile — to make oneself smile
- formularistic — relating to formularization
- fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
- fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- gastrectomies — Plural form of gastrectomy.
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- gastronomical — the art or science of good eating.
- geometricians — Plural form of geometrician.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- income stream — a flow of money into a business
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- isobarometric — isobaric
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- lymphosarcoma — a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.
- macro-segment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.