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

  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • clothes horse — A clothes horse is a folding frame used inside someone's house to hang washing on while it dries.
  • clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
  • clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
  • clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
  • clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • co-curricular — related but only complementary to the official curriculum, as a civic or service activity outside the classroom.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
  • coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
  • coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • 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.
  • cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
  • cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
  • cochleariform — having a spoon shape
  • cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
  • 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.
  • coelenterates — Plural form of coelenterate.
  • coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
  • coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
  • coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
  • cogent prolog — (language)   A full Edinburgh standard Prolog with debugger, listener, DCG, many built-ins, text windows, support for modules, and support for both 16-bit and 32-bit protected mode. Contact: Dennis C. Merritt.
  • cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
  • cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
  • coldheartedly — Alternative spelling of cold-heartedly.
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • collaboration — Collaboration is the act of working together to produce a piece of work, especially a book or some research.
  • collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
  • collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
  • collared dove — a European dove, Streptopelia decaocto, having a brownish-grey plumage with a black band on the back of the neck
  • collate-rally — security pledged for the payment of a loan: He gave the bank some stocks and bonds as collateral for the money he borrowed.
  • collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
  • collaterality — the state of being collateral
  • collateralize — to treat (a security) as collateral
  • collectorates — Plural form of collectorate.
  • 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.
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
  • colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
  • colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
  • colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
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