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13-letter words containing c, o, n, e, a

  • biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
  • bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
  • black economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.
  • black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
  • blasco ibanez — Vicente (biˈθente). 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, whose books include Blood and Sand (1909) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916)
  • boat neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • bonanza creek — a stream in W Yukon Territory, Canada, flowing NW to the Klondike River near Dawson: gold strike 1896. 20 miles (32 km) long.
  • boniface viii — original name Benedict Caetano. ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)
  • boolean logic — (logic)   A logic based on Boolean algebra.
  • boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
  • boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
  • bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • bouncy castle — A bouncy castle is a large object filled with air, often in the shape of a castle, which children play on at a fairground or other outdoor event.
  • boynton beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • buenas noches — good night
  • buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
  • by contraries — contrary to what is expected
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • café coronary — a fatal choking condition brought on when food, dentures, etc. lodge in a person's throat while he or she is eating: it is often misinterpreted as a heart attack
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
  • camerapersons — Plural form of cameraperson.
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
  • cancellations — Plural form of cancellation.
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • cannel (coal) — a compact variety of bituminous coal that was formed chiefly from spores and burns with a bright, steady flame
  • cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • canonical age — the age specified by canon law when a person becomes eligible to participate in a certain rite or hold a certain office.
  • canton enamel — Chinese enamelware similar to Limoges.
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • capaciousness — capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.
  • cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
  • capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
  • car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
  • carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
  • carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
  • 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
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