13-letter words containing c, a, t, s
- intellectuals — Plural form of intellectual.
- interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
- interiorscape — An installation of plants decorating the inside of a building.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interscapular — between the scapulae or shoulder blades.
- intersocietal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- intracapsular — Within a capsule.
- intradistrict — Within a single district.
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- intransigence — the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
- intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- intravascular — within the blood vessels.
- intricateness — The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.
- intrinsically — belonging to a thing by its very nature: the intrinsic value of a gold ring.
- islamic state — an Islamist terrorist organization, formed in the early 21st century, whose aim is to create a caliphate in the Middle East and N Africa
- ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
- isobarometric — isobaric
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isosmotically — With the same osmotic pressure.
- isostatically — In an isostatic manner.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
- jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
- jail sentence — a term of imprisonment imposed by a court
- joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
- joseph's coat — an ornamental species of pigweed (Amaranthus tricolor) having red, yellow, and green upper leaves
- joseph's-coat — a cultivated form of Amaranthus tricolor, having headlike clusters of small flowers and blotched and colored leaves.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificative — Justificatory.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
- kick upstairs — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
- lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- laparoscopist — One who carries out laparoscopy.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.