13-letter words containing r, a, i, l, n
- clearing-line — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- collaboration — Collaboration is the act of working together to produce a piece of work, especially a book or some research.
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- compressional — relating to compression
- comprovincial — belonging to the same province
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- conclusionary — conclusory
- conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- conglomeratic — of or relating to a conglomerate
- conglutinator — an agent that conglutinates
- congressional — A congressional policy, action, or person relates to the United States Congress.
- connaturality — the quality of being connatural
- connaturalize — to make connatural
- considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consimilarity — the condition of being mutually alike
- consolidators — Plural form of consolidator.
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- containerless — having no container
- contractility — capable of contracting or causing contraction.
- contractional — of, relating to, or produced by contraction
- contraorbital — of or relating to flight in the orbit of, but in a direction contrary to, a given rocket, ballistic missile, satellite, etc.
- contrastingly — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- contrastively — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- contraversial — Misspelling of controversial.
- contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- 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
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
- 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
- coresidential — relating to joint residency
- corinth canal — a ship canal connecting the Gulf of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf across the Isthmus of Corinth
- corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- corporational — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
- 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.