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

  • canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • 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.
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • 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.
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
  • carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
  • carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
  • carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • 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.
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • 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.
  • cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
  • carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
  • cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
  • 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.
  • carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
  • carol service — a service, held in a church around Christmas, at which Christmas carols are sung
  • carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • carrie nation — Carry or Carrie (Amelia Moore) 1846–1911, U.S. temperance leader.
  • carrot-topped — having red hair
  • carte du jour — a menu listing dishes available on a particular day
  • cartelization — The act of cartelizing.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
  • caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
  • 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.
  • caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
  • 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 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.
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
  • categorematic — (of a word) able to stand alone as a term or subject
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