13-letter words containing e, c, l
- creepy-crawly — You can refer to insects as creepy-crawlies when they give you a feeling of fear or disgust. This word is mainly used by children.
- crème caramel — a dessert made of eggs, sugar, milk, etc, topped with caramel
- cremorne bolt — (on a French window or the like) a pair of rods, moved by a knob mechanism, sliding into sockets in the head and sill of the opening to provide a secure fastening.
- crenellations — the battlements on a building
- creole tomato — cherry tomato.
- crevalle jack — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- cripple creek — a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world
- criticalities — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- cross oneself — to outline the form of a cross as a Christian religious act by moving the hand from the forehead to the breast and then from one shoulder to the other
- cross-channel — Cross-Channel travel is travel across the English Channel, especially by boat.
- cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
- cross-selling — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
- cross-sterile — incapable of reproducing due to hybridization.
- cross-utilize — to make use of in an additional or different way.
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
- crustal plate — a large block or tabular section of the lithosphere that reacts to tectonic forces as a unit and moves as such.
- cruzeiro real — a former monetary unit of Brazil, which was replaced by the real
- cryogenically — in a cryogenic manner
- cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- crystal clear — Water that is crystal clear is absolutely clear and transparent like glass.
- crystal pleat — one of a series of fine, permanently pressed pleats of varying widths, usually in a sheer fabric
- crystal-clear — absolutely clear; transparent; lucid.
- cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
- culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
- culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- culture trait — any trait of human activity acquired in social life and transmitted by communication.
- cultus coolee — a purposeless or recreational stroll or ride.
- culver's root — a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- curly lettuce — a type of lettuce that has leaves with curled edges
- current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae