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

  • decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
  • dental caries — cavity formation in teeth caused by bacteria that attach to teeth and form acids in the presence of sucrose, other sugars, and refined starches; tooth decay.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • desacralizing — Present participle of desacralize.
  • desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
  • destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
  • disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
  • discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
  • discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • distress call — a prearranged communication code sign indicating that the sender is in a situation of peril, distress, or the like, as SOS, Mayday, etc. Compare distress signal (def 1).
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
  • early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
  • easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
  • ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
  • elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
  • eleanor cross — any of the crosses erected at each place where the body of Eleanor of Castile (1246–90, Edward I's Spanish wife) rested between Nottingham (where she died) and London (where she is buried)
  • electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
  • electroplates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electroplate.
  • electrostatic — Of or relating to stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
  • empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
  • eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
  • excimer laser — a type of gas laser that emits powerful pulses of ultraviolet radiation used in weapons, industrial, or medical research: this radiation is emitted as the short-lived excimers, dimeric molecules that can only exist when a component is energized into an excited state, return to their ground states
  • excrescential — Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
  • extra-special — particular; exceptional
  • extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
  • extrasystolic — Relating to extrasystole, the premature contraction of the heart.
  • extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
  • extrinsically — In an extrinsic manner.
  • false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
  • fat electrons — (electronics, humour)   Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
  • general costs — the general expenses of running a business
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • gracelessness — The state of being graceless.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
  • grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
  • hair clippers — device for trimming hair
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