13-letter words containing r, e, o, i
- budget period — the time which a budget covers
- buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- byte compiler — byte-code compiler
- caesaropapism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters; Erastianism
- calcariferous — having a spur or spurs
- calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- 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.
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- cartelization — The act of cartelizing.
- carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
- caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
- catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
- catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
- categorematic — (of a word) able to stand alone as a term or subject
- categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
- cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
- 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
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.