13-letter words containing c, a, p, s, i
- conspurcation — the act of defiling
- constupration — the act of raping or violating
- containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- contrapuntist — a composer skilled in counterpoint
- copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
- cornish pasty — A Cornish pasty is a small pie with meat and vegetables inside.
- corporativism — corporatism
- corporisation — The forming into one body; embodiment.
- corsican pine — a pine tree, a variant of the black pine Pinus nigra var maritime, originally native to Corsica and neighbouring Mediterranean regions
- corticospinal — Of, or pertaining to, or connecting the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.
- cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
- craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
- cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
- crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
- cryptanalysis — the study of codes and ciphers; cryptography
- cryptesthesia — allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
- cryptoclastic — (of minerals and rocks) composed of microscopic fragments
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- decapitalised — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- diazo process — a method for printing on paper treated with a diazo compound that disintegrates upon exposure to light and developing the unexposed areas by the use of diazo dyes.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dip-and-scarp — (of topography) characterized by alternating steeper scarp slopes and gentler dip slopes
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
- discapacitate — to incapacitate (a person)
- disceptatious — disputable
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- discrepancies — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- dispatch case — attaché case.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music