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13-letter words containing l, o, c, r, e

  • control tower — A control tower is a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as the control tower.
  • controllables — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
  • convertiplane — an aircraft that can land and take off vertically by temporarily directing its propulsive thrust downwards
  • conveyor belt — A conveyor belt or a conveyor is a continuously-moving strip of rubber or metal which is used in factories for moving objects along so that they can be dealt with as quickly as possible.
  • cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
  • cooperatively — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • copolymerized — Polymerized, along with another compound, to form a copolymer.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
  • coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
  • coralligenous — producing coral
  • core analysis — Core analysis is the process of studying a sample of rock in a laboratory.
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
  • corel ventura — (text, graphics)   (Previously "Ventura Publisher") The first full-featured desktop publishing program available for the IBM personal computer and compatibles. Ventura Publisher was originally distributed by Ventura, a wholy owned subsiduary of Xerox Corporation but was acquired by Corel Corporation in September 1993.
  • coreligionist — an adherent of the same religion as another
  • coresidential — relating to joint residency
  • corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
  • corneoscleral — Relating to the cornea and sclera of the eye.
  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • corpora lutea — corpus luteum
  • corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
  • corporealness — The state or quality of being corporeal.
  • corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
  • correlational — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
  • correlatively — so related that each implies or complements the other.
  • 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.
  • councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
  • councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
  • counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
  • counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
  • counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner
  • countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
  • counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
  • countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • countrypeople — countryfolk.
  • court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
  • courtesy call — a formal visit
  • coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
  • coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
  • crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
  • crassulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Crassulaceae, a family of herbaceous or shrubby flowering plants with fleshy succulent leaves, including the houseleeks and stonecrops
  • cream-colored — yellowish-white
  • credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • cremorne bolt — (on a French window or the like) a pair of rods, moved by a knob mechanism, sliding into sockets in the head and sill of the opening to provide a secure fastening.
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