13-letter words containing e, s, c, n, t
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- callisthenics — light exercises designed to promote general fitness, develop muscle tone, etc
- caltanissetta — a city in central Sicily: sulphur mines. Pop: 61 438 (2001)
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- cancellations — Plural form of cancellation.
- candidateship — candidature
- candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
- candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- capstan lathe — a lathe for repetitive work, having a rotatable turret resembling a capstan to hold tools for successive operations
- capstan table — drum table.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
- case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
- cased edition — a hardback book sold in a protective box that is open at one edge so that you can see the spine of the book
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- castellations — Defensive or decorative parapets with regularly spaced notches; battlements.
- caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- catch the sun — to become slightly sunburnt
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- celestine iii — (Giacinto Bobone) died 1198, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1191–98.
- cement slurry — Cement slurry is a mixture of Portland cement, water, and additives.
- centenionalis — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued by Diocletian as the 100th part of a solidus, later greatly debased.
- 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 asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- 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
- centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
- ch'en tu-hsiu — 1879–1942, Chinese intellectual, journalist, and cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party.
- charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
- chastisements — severe criticism; a rebuke or strong reprimand.
- cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
- chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.