13-letter words containing c, o, s, t, e
- choker-setter — (in logging) a worker whose job is to fasten a choker to logs.
- cholecystitis — inflammation of the gall bladder, due to bacterial infection or the presence of gallstones
- cholesteatoma — A destructive and expanding keratinizing squamous epithelium in the middle ear and/or mastoid process.
- cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
- chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrestomathic — (of teaching or learning) That has a practical use.
- chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
- chromesthesia — (neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia.
- chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
- chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- civic society — an organization founded to promote the interests of a local community
- civil society — the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society
- class society — a society in which class distinctions are influential
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- cleistothecia — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close to home — affecting sb personally
- close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
- 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
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- code position — (character) An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- coelenterates — Plural form of coelenterate.
- coextensively — To the same extent.
- coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
- collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
- collectedness — The state or quality of being collected.
- collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
- collectivizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collectivize.
- collectorates — Plural form of collectorate.
- collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.