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13-letter words containing l, a, e, t

  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
  • chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
  • charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
  • charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
  • charles swart — Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
  • charter plane — a plane that has been chartered
  • chastity belt — a locking beltlike device with a loop designed to go between a woman's legs in order to prevent her from having sexual intercourse
  • chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
  • chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
  • chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
  • chloroacetone — a colorless, lachrymatory, poisonous liquid, C 3 H 5 ClO, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of insecticides and perfumes.
  • chloromethane — methyl chloride.
  • chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
  • chocolate-box — Chocolate-box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way.
  • cholesteatoma — A destructive and expanding keratinizing squamous epithelium in the middle ear and/or mastoid process.
  • cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
  • chromatophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
  • 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
  • class teacher — a teacher who teaches a class
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • cleaner tooth — a saw tooth for cleaning loose chips from a kerf.
  • clear a table — When you clear a table, you remove things from it that you do not want to be there.
  • 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.
  • clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
  • 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.
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