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13-letter words containing e, r, c, t, i

  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
  • creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
  • crenellations — the battlements on a building
  • crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
  • cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
  • crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
  • crimean tatar — a member of a Turkic people who lived in the Crimea before emigration to Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries and deportations to Soviet central Asia after World War II.
  • criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
  • crisis center — a central facility, telephone answering service, etc., where people may obtain informed help or advice in a personal crisis.
  • crisis centre — a place providing help to victims of crime, natural disasters, etc
  • criticalities — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
  • cross-section — If you refer to a cross-section of particular things or people, you mean a group of them that you think is typical or representative of all of them.
  • cross-sterile — incapable of reproducing due to hybridization.
  • cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
  • 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.
  • crotchetiness — The state or quality of being crotchety.
  • cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
  • cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
  • cryptesthesia — allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
  • 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.
  • culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
  • culture trait — any trait of human activity acquired in social life and transmitted by communication.
  • 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.
  • currency unit — a unit of money, such as the pound, dollar, or euro, that is used in a particular currency
  • current ratio — A current ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets by current liabilities.
  • current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
  • curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
  • customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cutter-rigged — fore-and-aft-rigged on one mast in the manner of a cutter.
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cyanobacteria — a group of photosynthetic bacteria (phylum Cyanobacteria) containing a blue photosynthetic pigment
  • cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
  • cybernetician — an expert in cybernetics
  • cyberneticist — Someone who studies cybernetics.
  • cybersecurity — the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • cyberthriller — A thriller whose plot hinges on cyberspace.
  • cysticercosis — a parasitic infection of tissue by the larval form of the pork tapeworm, Taenia Solium, contracted through the ingestion of food or water contaminated by faeces, or by eating infected pork
  • cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • data security — the protection of data stored on computers
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
  • decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
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