13-letter words containing i, c, e, s, a
- circumambages — round-about methods
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
- citizens band — a two-way radio service (Citizens Radio Service) licensed by the FCC to a U.S. citizen for short-distance personal or business communications between fixed or mobile stations. Abbreviation: CB.
- citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- 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.
- claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- 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 meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
- class society — a society in which class distinctions are influential
- classic blues — a type of city blues performed by a female singer accompanied by a small group
- classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
- 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 sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- 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.
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commentations — Plural form of commentation.
- commercialese — business jargon
- commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialism — Commercialism is the practice of making a lot of money from things without caring about their quality.
- commercialist — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commiseration — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commiserative — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- companies act — (in Britain) any of various laws that govern the formation, dissolution, and management of companies