13-letter words containing c, r, o, s
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- 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.
- 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-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- 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
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- 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
- cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- coconspirator — a fellow conspirator
- coelenterates — Plural form of coelenterate.
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
- collectorates — Plural form of collectorate.
- collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
- colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- colorlessness — The state of being colorless.
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- come a stumer — to crash financially
- come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
- come to terms — to reach acceptance or agreement
- come up roses — If you say that everything is coming up roses for someone, you mean that everything is going well for them.
- come up short — disappoint
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.