13-letter words containing i, r, s, a
- crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
- crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
- crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- crenellations — the battlements on a building
- criminalising — Present participle of criminalise.
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- critical mass — In physics, the critical mass of a substance is the minimum amount of it that is needed for a nuclear chain reaction.
- criticalities — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
- crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
- crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
- cryptanalysis — the study of codes and ciphers; cryptography
- cryptesthesia — allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
- cryptoclastic — (of minerals and rocks) composed of microscopic fragments
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- crystallinity — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- crystallizing — Present participle of crystallize.
- crystalloidal — Relating to a crystalloid.
- cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
- culturalistic — Of or relating to culturalism.
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
- dare i say it — You use 'dare I say it' when you know that what you are going to say will disappoint or annoy someone.
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
- dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
- data security — the protection of data stored on computers
- data striping — (storage) Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. This technique is useful if the processor is capable of reading or writing data faster than a single disk can supply or accept it. While data is being transferred from the first disk, the second disk can locate the next segment. Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under hardware control, such as IBM's RAMAC array subsystem (9304/9395). Data striping is different from, and may be used in conjunction with, mirroring.
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
- decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.