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13-letter words containing c, r, o, s, t, a

  • austroasiatic — a family of languages spoken in SE Asia and the landsaround the Bay of Bengal and consisting principally of Vietnamese, Khmer, Mon, Khasi, Nicobarese, and the Munda languages.
  • auto-destruct — self-destruct.
  • autocatharsis — a therapeutic process designed to free unconscious disturbances by having the patient write about his or her experiences, impressions, etc.
  • autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
  • autorickshaws — Plural form of autorickshaw.
  • autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
  • bachelorettes — Plural form of bachelorette.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
  • bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
  • barbary coast — coastal region of N Africa, extending from Egypt to the Atlantic, inhabited chiefly by Berbers and once (until early 19th cent.) dominated by pirates
  • barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
  • baroreceptors — Plural form of baroreceptor.
  • basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
  • behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • booster cable — either of a pair of electric cables having clamps at each end and used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead.
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
  • buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
  • by contraries — contrary to what is expected
  • cache storage — cache (def 3).
  • car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • 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.
  • carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • 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.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • castro valley — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
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