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

  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
  • car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • carbolic acid — Carbolic acid or carbolic is a liquid that is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic.
  • carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
  • carbolic-acid — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
  • carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • carbonylation — the introduction of a carbonyl group into a compound through chemical reaction
  • carboxylation — a chemical reaction that introduces a carboxyl group into a molecule or compound, forming a carboxylic acid or a carboxylate
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • cardiological — the study of the heart and its functions in health and disease.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
  • carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
  • carnivorously — In a carnivorous manner.
  • carol service — a service, held in a church around Christmas, at which Christmas carols are sung
  • carolina lily — a bulbous lily, Lilium michauxii, of the southeastern U.S., having large, spotted, orange-red flowers with recurved petals.
  • carolina rail — sora.
  • carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
  • carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • cartelization — The act of cartelizing.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
  • 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.
  • casual labour — people who are employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • catalog verse — verse made by compiling long lists of everyday objects, names, or events, united by a common theme and often didactic in tone.
  • categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • celluliferous — making or consisting of small cells
  • central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
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