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13-letter words containing c, r, o, t, h

  • batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
  • batrachotoxin — a steroidal alkaloid, C31H42N2O6, found in the skin of certain Neotropical frogs (genus Phyllobates) and used on poison arrows: one of the most powerful natural neurotoxins known
  • 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.
  • bibliothecary — a librarian
  • birth control — Birth control means planning whether to have children, and using contraception to prevent having them when they are not wanted.
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • box stretcher — a heavy rectangular stretcher connecting successive legs of a table, chair, etc.
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
  • bronchiolitis — a condition in which the small airways in the lungs become inflamed by a virus. It is most common in infants, who become breathless in severe cases. Recurrent attacks may lead to asthma
  • butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
  • butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
  • cache storage — cache (def 3).
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
  • carry through — If you carry something through, you do it or complete it, often in spite of difficulties.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • 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
  • 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
  • catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
  • cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
  • cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
  • cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
  • cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
  • chain reactor — reactor (def 4).
  • chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
  • chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
  • charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
  • chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
  • chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
  • checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chemoreceptor — a sensory receptor in a biological cell membrane to which an external molecule binds to generate a smell or taste sensation
  • cherry tomato — a miniature tomato not much bigger than a cherry
  • chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
  • chiromantical — Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
  • chiropractics — The practice of a chiropractor.
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