13-letter words containing l, i, t
- cosmopolitics — world politics
- cosmopolitism — The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.
- cosmothetical — cosmothetic
- cost analysis — an economic evaluation
- costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
- costimulatory — Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
- cotemporality — The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- could do with — If you say that you could do with something, you mean that you need it or would benefit from it.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- county police — (in the US) the police of a particular county
- court martial — A court martial is a trial in a military court of a member of the armed forces who is charged with breaking a military law.
- court-martial — a court consisting of military or naval personnel appointed by a commander to try charges of offenses by soldiers, sailors, etc., against military or naval law.
- cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- credentialled — having credentials
- credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
- creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- crenellations — the battlements on a building
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- criminologist — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- crinicultural — of or relating to hair growth
- critical mass — In physics, the critical mass of a substance is the minimum amount of it that is needed for a nuclear chain reaction.
- critical path — the sequence of stages of a project requiring the longest time
- criticalities — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
- cross-sterile — incapable of reproducing due to hybridization.
- cross-utilize — to make use of in an additional or different way.
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
- cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
- cryptanalysis — the study of codes and ciphers; cryptography
- cryptanalytic — Of or pertaining to cryptanalysis or cryptanalytics.
- cryptoclastic — (of minerals and rocks) composed of microscopic fragments
- cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- cryptological — cryptography.
- 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.
- cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
- cucurbit wilt — a disease of cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family, characterized by wilted leaves, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia tracheiphila.
- culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.