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13-letter words containing c, h, i, a, o

  • containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
  • 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.
  • copy the mail — letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system: Storms delayed delivery of the mail.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • corinth canal — a ship canal connecting the Gulf of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf across the Isthmus of Corinth
  • corinthianize — to live a promiscuous life
  • cornish pasty — A Cornish pasty is a small pie with meat and vegetables inside.
  • coronagraphic — Of, pertaining to, or employing a coronagraph.
  • cosmochemical — relating to cosmochemistry
  • cosmothetical — cosmothetic
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
  • crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
  • cryptographic — Relating to cryptography.
  • cryptoxanthin — a carotenoid pigment, C40H56O, in butter, eggs, and various plants, that can be converted into vitamin A in the body
  • cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
  • 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
  • cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
  • cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
  • cystathionine — an amino acid, C 7 H 14 O 4 N 2 S, that is an intermediate in the transfer of sulfur from methionine to cysteine.
  • cytochalasins — Plural form of cytochalasin.
  • dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
  • decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
  • dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
  • demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
  • demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • diacatholicon — an all-purpose remedy
  • dialect coach — a person whose job is to train actors to speak in the authentic accent and manner of a particular area
  • diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
  • diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
  • diotheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dolichocephal — a person with a head much longer than it is broad
  • dolichocranic — dolichocephalic.
  • dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
  • dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
  • dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
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