13-letter words containing l, e, c, t
- circumvallate — to surround with a defensive fortification
- civil liberty — the right of an individual to certain freedoms of speech and action
- civil righter — a civil rightist.
- 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.
- civil society — the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society
- 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
- client-server — (programming) A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds. This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case. There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client. Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.
- 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
- clincher tire — an automobile tire having on each side of its inner circumference a rubber flange that fits under the turned-over edge of the wheel rim.
- clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
- cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
- clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
- clippety-clop — the sound struck by the hoofs of a horse trotting on pavement, or any staccato, rhythmic sound resembling it.
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
- close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close to home — affecting sb personally
- close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- clothes horse — A clothes horse is a folding frame used inside someone's house to hang washing on while it dries.
- clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
- clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
- clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
- cloven-footed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.