13-letter words containing r, o, t, c, e
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
- 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.
- caveat emptor — Caveat emptor means 'let the buyer beware', and is a warning to someone buying something that it is their responsibility to identify and accept any faults in it.
- cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
- center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
- central karoo — an arid plateau of S central South Africa, in Cape Province, separated from the Little Karoo to the southwest by the Swartberg range. Average height: 750 m (2500 ft)
- centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
- centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
- cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chain reactor — reactor (def 4).
- chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
- chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
- chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
- chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
- chemoreceptor — a sensory receptor in a biological cell membrane to which an external molecule binds to generate a smell or taste sensation
- cherry tomato — a miniature tomato not much bigger than a cherry
- chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
- chloroacetone — a colorless, lachrymatory, poisonous liquid, C 3 H 5 ClO, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of insecticides and perfumes.