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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
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