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13-letter words containing c, r, e, o, n

  • bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
  • brown creeper — a small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae, of South Island, New Zealand
  • buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
  • by contraries — contrary to what is expected
  • café coronary — a fatal choking condition brought on when food, dentures, etc. lodge in a person's throat while he or she is eating: it is often misinterpreted as a heart attack
  • calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
  • camerapersons — Plural form of cameraperson.
  • canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
  • carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
  • carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
  • 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.
  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • 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.
  • cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
  • carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
  • cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
  • carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
  • carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
  • carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carrie nation — Carry or Carrie (Amelia Moore) 1846–1911, U.S. temperance leader.
  • cartelization — The act of cartelizing.
  • carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
  • caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • 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.
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
  • central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
  • centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
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