13-letter words containing e, t, a, i, l
- cigar lighter — a small, portable implement containing fuel which produces a flame with which to light a cigarette
- cinematically — Chiefly British. motion picture.
- cinnamon teal — a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.
- circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
- circumvallate — to surround with a defensive fortification
- civil servant — A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.
- claim to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
- clairsentient — Exhibiting or pertaining to clairsentience.
- clandestinely — characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.
- clandestinity — secrecy; the quality of being clandestine
- clarinettists — Plural form of clarinettist.
- class society — a society in which class distinctions are influential
- clear the air — to rid a situation of tension or discord by settling misunderstandings, etc
- clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
- clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
- clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- cleistothecia — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- clicketyclack — a rhythmic, metallic sound, as that made by the wheels of a moving train
- climatic zone — any of the eight principal zones, roughly demarcated by lines of latitude, into which the earth can be divided on the basis of climate
- cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- codeclination — the astronomical coordinate complementary to the declination
- coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
- collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
- collaterality — the state of being collateral
- collateralize — to treat (a security) as collateral
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- commercial at — (character) "@". ASCII code 64. Common names: at sign, at, strudel. Rare: each, vortex, whorl, INTERCAL: whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape, cat, rose, cabbage, amphora. ITU-T: commercial at. The @ sign is used in an electronic mail address to separate the local part from the hostname. This dates back to July 1972 when Ray Tomlinson was designing the first[?] e-mail program. It is ironic that @ has become a trendy mark of Internet awareness since it is a very old symbol, derived from the latin preposition "ad" (at). Giorgio Stabile, a professor of history in Rome, has traced the symbol back to the Italian Renaissance in a Roman mercantile document signed by Francesco Lapi on 1536-05-04. In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (little ape-tail), in German "affenschwanz" (ape tail). The French name is "arobase". In Spain and Portugal it denotes a weight of about 25 pounds, the weight and the symbol are called "arroba". Italians call it "chiocciola" (snail). See @-party.
- commercialist — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
- commerciality — commercial quality or character; ability to produce a profit: Distributors were concerned about the film's commerciality compared with last year's successful pictures.
- commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- commutatively — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
- comparatively — in a comparative manner
- complicatedly — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- conditionable — able to be conditioned
- confiscatable — confiscable
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- conglomeratic — of or relating to a conglomerate
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.