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13-letter words containing r, e, c, i

  • 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.
  • client-server — (programming)   A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds. This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case. There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client. Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.
  • cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
  • cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clincher tire — an automobile tire having on each side of its inner circumference a rubber flange that fits under the turned-over edge of the wheel rim.
  • clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
  • clinopyroxene — a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having a monoclinic crystal structure, such as augite, diopside, or jadeite
  • cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
  • clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
  • clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
  • 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-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • 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.
  • cocarcinogens — Plural form of cocarcinogen.
  • cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
  • cochleariform — having a spoon shape
  • cod-liver oil — Cod liver oil is a thick yellow oil which is given as a medicine, especially to children, because it is full of vitamins A and D.
  • coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
  • coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
  • coffin corner — any of the corners of a football field formed by a goal line and side line: punts are sometimes directed to a coffin corner so that the ball will go out of bounds near the opponent's goal line
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
  • coinheritance — joint inheritance
  • cointegration — (mathematics) The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary.
  • collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
  • collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
  • collaterality — the state of being collateral
  • collateralize — to treat (a security) as collateral
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
  • columelliform — like a columella.
  • come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
  • come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
  • commemoration — the act or an instance of commemorating
  • commemorative — A commemorative object or event is intended to make people remember a particular event or person.
  • commerce city — a city in central Colorado.
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