13-letter words containing c, r, e, a
- advance party — a small group of soldiers who go ahead of the main body of troops to prepare the way for their arrival, or any group that does the same thing or arrives ahead of the main body
- advance ratio — the ratio of wind speed along the axis of a rotor or propeller to the speed of the blade tip
- adventuristic — relating to adventurism
- adverb clause — a subordinate clause that functions as an adverb within a main clause.
- aerial camera — a camera used to take pictures from the air
- aeroacoustics — the study of the generation and transmittance of sound by fluid flow
- aerodynamical — relating to aerodynamics
- aeromagnetics — the science of measuring magnetic characteristics associated with atmospheric conditions of the earth.
- aeromechanics — the mechanics of gases, esp air
- aerostructure — any separately manufactured unit, component, or section of an aircraft or other vehicle capable of flight
- affenpinscher — a small wire-haired breed of dog of European origin, having tufts of hair on the muzzle
- african grape — a watermelon.
- african plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the African continent as well as adjacent ocean basins (the Canary, Cape Verde, Angola, Cape Agulhas, Somali, Madagascar, and Natal Basins), and bounded on the north by the Eurasian and Arabian Plates, on the east by mid-ocean ridges (the Southwest Indian, Mid-Indian, and Carlsberg Ridges), on the south by the Antarctic Plate, and on the west by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
- afro-american — African-American
- after-effects — harmful consequences, effects
- agro-economic — of or relating to a nation's agricultural economy, the financial problems of farmers as a group, etc.: mounting pressures on the agro-economic system.
- agrobacterium — A soil bacterium, of the genus Agrobacterium, which can fix nitrogen, and causes the formation of crown galls in plants.
- agrochemicals — Plural form of agrochemical.
- agroecologist — One who studies agroecology.
- air ambulance — An air ambulance is a helicopter or plane that is used for taking people to hospital.
- air commodore — a senior officer of the Royal Air Force and certain other air forces, of equivalent rank to brigadier in the Army
- air core coil — having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils: air-core transformer.
- air discharge — Air discharge is a method for testing ESD-protection structures in which the ESD generator is discharged through an air gap between the generator and the device under test.
- air force one — the US Air Force plane used by the US president
- air injection — injection of liquid fuel into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine, especially a diesel, by means of a jet of compressed air.
- aircraftwomen — Plural form of aircraftwoman.
- alcoholometer — an instrument, such as a specially calibrated hydrometer, for determining the percentage of alcohol in a liquid
- alcoholometry — the process of measuring the concentration of alcohol in a liquid, such as in blood or a liquor
- alectryomancy — an ancient form of divination, using a rooster to select grains of food placed on letters of the alphabet.
- alexis carrel — Alexis [uh-lek-sis;; French a-lek-see] /əˈlɛk sɪs;; French a lɛkˈsi/ (Show IPA), 1873–1944, French surgeon and biologist, in U.S. 1905–39: Nobel Prize 1912.
- algebraically — of, occurring in, or utilizing algebra.
- alice springs — a town in central Australia, in the Northern Territory, in the Macdonnell Ranges. Pop: 23 640 (2001)
- all-embracing — Something that is all-embracing includes or affects everyone or everything.
- allegorically — consisting of or pertaining to allegory; of the nature of or containing allgegory; figurative: an allegorical poem; an allegorical meaning.
- allelomorphic — relating to alleles
- allergenicity — causing allergic sensitization.
- alpha blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the alpha receptors.
- alpha carinae — Canopus1
- alpha-blocker — any of a class of drugs that prevent the stimulation of alpha adrenoceptors, a type of receptor in the sympathetic nervous system, by adrenaline and noradrenaline and that therefore cause widening of blood vessels: used in the treatment of high blood pressure and prostatic hyperplasia
- alphanumerics — Plural form of alphanumeric.
- alsike clover — a European clover, Trifolium hybridum, having pink flowers, grown in the U.S. for forage.
- altered chord — a chord in which one or more notes are chromatically changed by the introduction of accidentals
- alveolar arch — the part of the upper or lower jawbone in which the teeth are set.
- amarantaceous — amaranthine
- america's cup — an international yachting trophy, first won by the schooner America in 1851 and held as a challenge trophy by the New York Yacht Club until 1983
- american aloe — century plant
- american bond — a brickwork bond having a course of headers between five or six courses of stretchers.
- american curl — a breed of slender cat with curled-back ears and a plumed tail
- american fork — a town in central Utah.
- american plan — a hotel rate in which the charge includes meals