13-letter words containing c, o, r, e, l, s
- cross-channel — Cross-Channel travel is travel across the English Channel, especially by boat.
- cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
- cross-selling — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
- cross-sterile — incapable of reproducing due to hybridization.
- cross-utilize — to make use of in an additional or different way.
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
- cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- culver's root — a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers
- curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- desert cooler — (in India) a cooling device in which air is driven by an electric fan through wet grass
- desert locust — a migratory locust, Schistocerca gregaria, of North Africa and Asia, associated with the plagues described in the Old Testament.
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- efflorescence — the state or a period of flowering.
- 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.
- electrologist — A person trained to remove unwanted hair on the body or face or small blemishes on the skin by a method that involves the application of heat using an electric current.
- electromerism — a type of tautomerism in which the isomers (electromers) differ in the distribution of charge in their molecules
- electrometers — Plural form of electrometer.
- electron lens — a system, such as an arrangement of electrodes or magnets, that produces a field for focusing a beam of electrons
- electrooptics — the technology that deals with the production, control, and detection of light by electrical devices
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- electroplates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electroplate.
- electroscopes — Plural form of electroscope.
- electrostatic — Of or relating to stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
- electrostrong — (physics) describing the combination of the electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces.
- electrotypist — an electrotyper
- ensorcellment — Enchantment, bewitchment.
- enterocolitis — Inflammation of both the small intestine and the colon.
- escort vessel — ship that accompanies another