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13-letter words containing o, t, s

  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
  • case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
  • cased edition — a hardback book sold in a protective box that is open at one edge so that you can see the spine of the book
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • castellations — Defensive or decorative parapets with regularly spaced notches; battlements.
  • caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • castro valley — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • casualisation — (economics) The process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.
  • casualization — the altering of working practices so that regular workers are re-employed on a casual or short-term basis
  • cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
  • catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
  • catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • centenionalis — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued by Diocletian as the 100th part of a solidus, later greatly debased.
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
  • chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
  • chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
  • chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
  • chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
  • charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
  • chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
  • chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • cheviot hills — a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland, mainly in Northumberland
  • chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • 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.
  • child custody — custody (def 4).
  • 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-custody — custody (def 4).
  • chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
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