13-letter words containing o, r, s, i
- chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
- cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
- chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
- child process — (operating system) A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- child version — (system management) In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
- chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
- chiropractics — The practice of a chiropractor.
- chiropractors — Plural form of chiropractor.
- chloroformist — a person who is skilled in the use of or who dispenses or provides chloroform as part of their job
- chloroplastic — a plastid containing chlorophyll.
- chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
- chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
- cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
- chorepiscopal — (in early Christianity) relating to or connected with a local bishop
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrestomathic — (of teaching or learning) That has a practical use.
- chrisom child — a baptized child that dies in its first month.
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
- chromatolysis — the dissolution of stained material, such as chromatin in injured cells
- chromesthesia — (neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia.
- chromhidrosis — the secretion of pigmented sweat.
- chromospheric — Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
- chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
- chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
- chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
- ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
- cinema goers' — filmgoer.
- circumcisions — Plural form of circumcision.
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
- closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.