13-letter words containing r, e, t, i, c
- candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
- 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.
- cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
- carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- 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.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- cash receipts — the money a business receives from its customers over a specified period
- cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
- caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
- cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
- 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.
- catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- caustic curve — a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
- 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.
- cd-read-write — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
- centerfielder — (baseball) A player in the centerfield position.
- central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
- central india — a former political agency in central India uniting various native states and subordinate agencies: now incorporated into Madhya Pradesh.
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
- centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.