13-letter words containing c, o, r, e
- clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
- clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- clinopyroxene — a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having a monoclinic crystal structure, such as augite, diopside, or jadeite
- cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
- closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
- closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- clothes horse — A clothes horse is a folding frame used inside someone's house to hang washing on while it dries.
- clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
- clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
- clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
- clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
- co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
- coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
- cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape
- cockney bream — a young snapper fish
- coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
- coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
- cod-liver oil — Cod liver oil is a thick yellow oil which is given as a medicine, especially to children, because it is full of vitamins A and D.
- coelenterates — Plural form of coelenterate.
- coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee