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13-letter words containing c, r, l

  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clever-clever — clever in a showy manner; artful; overclever
  • 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.
  • client-server — (programming)   A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds. This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case. There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client. Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.
  • cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
  • cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
  • climatography — an account of a region's climate
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clincher tire — an automobile tire having on each side of its inner circumference a rubber flange that fits under the turned-over edge of the wheel rim.
  • clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
  • 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.
  • clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
  • clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
  • clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • 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-curricular — related but only complementary to the official curriculum, as a civic or service activity outside the classroom.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • 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
  • coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
  • 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
  • cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
  • cochleariform — having a spoon shape
  • cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
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