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13-letter words containing e, c, r, a

  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cause celebre — A cause célèbre is an issue, person, or criminal trial that has attracted a lot of public attention and discussion.
  • caustic curve — a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
  • caveat emptor — Caveat emptor means 'let the buyer beware', and is a warning to someone buying something that it is their responsibility to identify and accept any faults in it.
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • cd-read-write — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
  • cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • cell membrane — a very thin membrane, composed of lipids and protein, that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell and controls the passage of substances into and out of the cell
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
  • center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
  • central angle — an angle whose vertex is at the centre of a circle
  • central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
  • central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • central india — a former political agency in central India uniting various native states and subordinate agencies: now incorporated into Madhya Pradesh.
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
  • centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
  • centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
  • cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
  • ceramic oxide — a compound of oxygen with nonorganic material: recently discovered to act as a high-temperature superconductor
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
  • certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
  • certificatory — Serving to certify something.
  • cerulean blue — a light-blue to strong greenish-blue color.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • cervicography — a method of cervical screening in which the neck of the uterus is photographed to facilitate the early detection of cancer
  • cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
  • chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
  • chain printer — a line printer in which the type is on a continuous chain, used to print computer output
  • chain reactor — reactor (def 4).
  • chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
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