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13-letter words containing c, e, s, u

  • business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
  • business case — a briefcase or attaché case.
  • buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
  • butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
  • butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
  • cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
  • caesium clock — a type of atomic clock that uses the frequency of radiation absorbed in changing the spin of electrons in caesium atoms
  • cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
  • calcariferous — having a spur or spurs
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • camphoraceous — similar to camphor
  • campus police — police officers, security guards or students employed by a college or university to patrol the campus and to protect students, staff, and visitors
  • candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
  • capaciousness — capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • capsule shell — A capsule shell is an outer skin in which a medicinal substance is contained.
  • car insurance — financial protection against loss as a result of an automobile accident or theft
  • carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
  • carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
  • carnivalesque — characteristic of, suitable for, or like a carnival
  • carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • cassivelaunus — 1st century bc, British chieftain, king of the Catuvellauni tribe, who organized resistance to Caesar's invasion of Britain (54 bc)
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
  • catch the sun — to become slightly sunburnt
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • cause celebre — A cause célèbre is an issue, person, or criminal trial that has attracted a lot of public attention and discussion.
  • 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
  • caustic curve — a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • celiac plexus — solar plexus (def 1).
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • celluliferous — making or consisting of small cells
  • cellulose-gum — a white, water-soluble polymer derived from cellulose, used as a coating and sizing for paper and textiles, a stabilizer for various foods, and an appetite suppressor.
  • celsius scale — a scale of temperature in which 0° represents the melting point of ice and 100° represents the boiling point of water
  • cement slurry — Cement slurry is a mixture of Portland cement, water, and additives.
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
  • ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
  • cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
  • ch'en tu-hsiu — 1879–1942, Chinese intellectual, journalist, and cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party.
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
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