13-letter words containing c, o, u, r, t
- butter cooler — an earthenware container, consisting of a dish and cover, used to keep butter cool
- 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.
- carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carburization — Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture of steel.
- carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
- caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
- carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
- carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
- carry through — If you carry something through, you do it or complete it, often in spite of difficulties.
- carte du jour — a menu listing dishes available on a particular day
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
- centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
- chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- circuit board — A circuit board is the same as a printed circuit board.
- circuit court — a court with jurisdiction over several counties or districts within a state.
- circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
- circumductory — relating to circumduction
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- 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-authorship — the state a coauthor
- co-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.