13-letter words containing c, r
- air ambulance — An air ambulance is a helicopter or plane that is used for taking people to hospital.
- air commodore — a senior officer of the Royal Air Force and certain other air forces, of equivalent rank to brigadier in the Army
- air core coil — having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils: air-core transformer.
- air discharge — Air discharge is a method for testing ESD-protection structures in which the ESD generator is discharged through an air gap between the generator and the device under test.
- air force one — the US Air Force plane used by the US president
- air injection — injection of liquid fuel into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine, especially a diesel, by means of a jet of compressed air.
- air-condition — to apply air conditioning to
- aircraftwoman — The female equivalent of an aircraftman.
- aircraftwomen — Plural form of aircraftwoman.
- albumin color — (in textile printing) a color fixed to a fabric by an albuminous mordant.
- alcoholometer — an instrument, such as a specially calibrated hydrometer, for determining the percentage of alcohol in a liquid
- alcoholometry — the process of measuring the concentration of alcohol in a liquid, such as in blood or a liquor
- alectryomancy — an ancient form of divination, using a rooster to select grains of food placed on letters of the alphabet.
- alexis carrel — Alexis [uh-lek-sis;; French a-lek-see] /əˈlɛk sɪs;; French a lɛkˈsi/ (Show IPA), 1873–1944, French surgeon and biologist, in U.S. 1905–39: Nobel Prize 1912.
- algebraically — of, occurring in, or utilizing algebra.
- alice springs — a town in central Australia, in the Northern Territory, in the Macdonnell Ranges. Pop: 23 640 (2001)
- all-embracing — Something that is all-embracing includes or affects everyone or everything.
- allegorically — consisting of or pertaining to allegory; of the nature of or containing allgegory; figurative: an allegorical poem; an allegorical meaning.
- allelomorphic — relating to alleles
- allergenicity — causing allergic sensitization.
- allochromatic — Physical Chemistry. pertaining to or having photochemical properties resulting from an impurity or from exposure to radiation.
- alonzo church — (person) A twentieth century mathematician and logician, and one of the founders of computer science. Church invented the lambda-calculus and posited a version of the Church-Turing thesis.
- alpha blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the alpha receptors.
- alpha carinae — Canopus1
- alpha scorpii — Antares
- alpha-blocker — any of a class of drugs that prevent the stimulation of alpha adrenoceptors, a type of receptor in the sympathetic nervous system, by adrenaline and noradrenaline and that therefore cause widening of blood vessels: used in the treatment of high blood pressure and prostatic hyperplasia
- alphanumerics — Plural form of alphanumeric.
- alsike clover — a European clover, Trifolium hybridum, having pink flowers, grown in the U.S. for forage.
- altered chord — a chord in which one or more notes are chromatically changed by the introduction of accidentals
- alveolar arch — the part of the upper or lower jawbone in which the teeth are set.
- amarantaceous — amaranthine
- america's cup — an international yachting trophy, first won by the schooner America in 1851 and held as a challenge trophy by the New York Yacht Club until 1983
- american aloe — century plant
- american bond — a brickwork bond having a course of headers between five or six courses of stretchers.
- american curl — a breed of slender cat with curled-back ears and a plumed tail
- american fork — a town in central Utah.
- american plan — a hotel rate in which the charge includes meals
- american wake — an all-night farewell party for a person about to emigrate to America
- amicus curiae — a person not directly engaged in a case who advises the court
- amino radical — the univalent group, −NH 2 .
- aminoaciduria — the presence of amino acids in urine
- amphitheatric — Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling an amphitheatre.
- amphitrichate — having a single flagellum at each end.
- amphitrichous — having a single flagellum at each end.
- amphotericins — Plural form of amphotericin.
- amplificatory — of the nature of enlargement or extension, as of a statement, narrative, etc.
- anachronistic — You say that something is anachronistic when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
- anachronously — in an anachronous manner
- anaerobically — (of an organism or tissue) living in the absence of air or free oxygen.
- anaphorically — referring back to or substituting for a preceding word or group of words: anaphoric reference.