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

  • buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
  • buffalo cloth — a heavyweight woolen fabric constructed in twill weave and having a shaggy pile.
  • butyl alcohol — any of four isomeric alcohols, C4H9OH, obtained from petroleum products: used as solvents and in organic synthesis
  • cache storage — cache (def 3).
  • cacographical — Synonym of cacographic.
  • cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
  • cainotophobia — Alternative form of cainophobia.
  • camphoraceous — similar to camphor
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
  • carry through — If you carry something through, you do it or complete it, often in spite of difficulties.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • catch hold of — to take; seize; grasp
  • catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
  • catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
  • catechization — The act of catechizing.
  • catecholamine — any of a group of hormones that are catechol derivatives, esp adrenaline and noradrenaline
  • cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
  • cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
  • cephalization — (in the evolution of animals) development of a head by the concentration of feeding and sensory organs and nervous tissue at the anterior end
  • cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
  • cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
  • cervicography — a method of cervical screening in which the neck of the uterus is photographed to facilitate the early detection of cancer
  • cetyl alcohol — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 16 H 34 O, used chiefly as an emollient in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
  • chain reactor — reactor (def 4).
  • chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
  • chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
  • chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
  • chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
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