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13-letter words containing i, c, o, n, a

  • cinchona bark — the dried bark of any of a cinchona tree, which yields quinine and other medicinal alkaloids
  • cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
  • cinco de mayo — May 5, anniversary of the victory of Mexico over French forces at Puebla in 1862: observed by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
  • cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
  • cinnamon teal — a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.
  • ciprofloxacin — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used against Gram-negative bacteria. It is effective against anthrax
  • citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
  • city dionysia — (in ancient Athens) the chief festival in honor of Dionysus, celebrated in early spring and notable for the performance of dithyrambs, tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays.
  • civilisations — Plural form of civilisation.
  • civilizations — Plural form of civilization.
  • clairvoyantly — In a clairvoyant way; by means of clairvoyance.
  • clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
  • claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
  • 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.
  • clearing loan — a bank loan to finance the purchase of securities which is repayable within the calendar day on which it is made.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
  • 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
  • climatization — to acclimate to a new environment.
  • clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
  • clinopinacoid — (in monoclinic crystals) the plane that is parallel to both the vertical and the inclined lateral axes
  • cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • co-ordination — Co-ordination means organizing the activities of two or more groups so that they work together efficiently and know what the others are doing.
  • coach station — A coach station is an area or a building which coaches leave from or arrive at on regular journeys.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coastal plain — a plain extending along a coast.
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
  • coca-colonize — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
  • cocaine habit — an addiction to cocaine
  • cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
  • cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
  • coconspirator — a fellow conspirator
  • cocontraction — The simultaneous contraction of two muscles.
  • cocos islands — a group of 27 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Java: a Territory of Australia since 1955. Pop: 596 (2010). Area: 13 sq km (5 sq miles)
  • cocultivation — the act of cultivating jointly
  • codeclination — the astronomical coordinate complementary to the declination
  • coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
  • cognomination — the process of giving a cognomen
  • coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
  • coinheritance — joint inheritance
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
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