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13-letter words containing c, l, a, r

  • casual labour — people who are employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
  • catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
  • categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • cathartically — of or relating to catharsis.
  • cattle market — A cattle market is a market where cattle are bought and sold.
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cause celebre — A cause célèbre is an issue, person, or criminal trial that has attracted a lot of public attention and discussion.
  • cavalry twill — a strong woollen twill fabric used for trousers, etc
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • cell membrane — a very thin membrane, composed of lipids and protein, that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell and controls the passage of substances into and out of the cell
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • central angle — an angle whose vertex is at the centre of a circle
  • central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
  • central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • central india — a former political agency in central India uniting various native states and subordinate agencies: now incorporated into Madhya Pradesh.
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
  • centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
  • cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
  • 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
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
  • cerulean blue — a light-blue to strong greenish-blue color.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
  • chancelleries — Plural form of chancellery.
  • channel ferry — a ship that shuttles across the English Channel between the UK and the continent
  • chaparral pea — a thorny leguminous Californian shrub, Pickeringia montana, with reddish-purple showy flowers
  • chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
  • characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
  • charcoal grey — a very dark grey colour
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • charitability — Charitableness.
  • charlatanical — of or relating to a charlatan, pretentious
  • charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
  • charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
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