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

  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
  • chapman stick — an electronically amplified musical instrument with ten or twelve strings and a fretted neck, which is played by striking the strings against the frets with the fingers
  • charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
  • charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
  • chastisements — severe criticism; a rebuke or strong reprimand.
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chicken snake — rat snake
  • chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
  • chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.
  • chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
  • chinese anise — star anise.
  • chinese-anise — Also called Chinese anise. a shrub or small tree, Illicium verum, of China, having white flowers that turn purple and bearing anise-scented, star-shaped clusters of carminative fruit.
  • chinling shan — Qinling Shan
  • christian era — the period beginning with the year of Christ's birth. Dates in this era are labelled ad, those previous to it bc
  • christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
  • christiansand — former name of Kristiansand.
  • chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
  • churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
  • ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
  • cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
  • circularising — Present participle of circularise.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • circumstances — someone's financial situation
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • civilisations — Plural form of civilisation.
  • civilizations — Plural form of civilization.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
  • coach station — A coach station is an area or a building which coaches leave from or arrive at on regular journeys.
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of 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.
  • cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
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