13-letter words containing s, a, c, l
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- catechistical — Pertaining to a catechism.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- cause celebre — A cause célèbre is an issue, person, or criminal trial that has attracted a lot of public attention and discussion.
- causelessness — the quality or state of having no cause or reason
- cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
- caxias do sul — a city in S Brazil.
- ceaselessness — the quality of being uninterrupted or not stopping
- celiac plexus — solar plexus (def 1).
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- celsius scale — a scale of temperature in which 0° represents the melting point of ice and 100° represents the boiling point of water
- centenionalis — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued by Diocletian as the 100th part of a solidus, later greatly debased.
- central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
- centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
- cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
- cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
- chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
- chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
- chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
- chancelleries — Plural form of chancellery.
- chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
- charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- charles lever — Charles James ("Cornelius O'Dowd") 1806–72, Irish novelist and essayist.
- charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
- charles lyell — Sir Charles, 1797–1875, English geologist.
- charles swart — Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
- charles's law — the statement that for a body of ideal gas at constant pressure the volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature
- charley horse — People sometimes refer to a cramp in the muscles of their leg or arm as a charley horse.
- charlier shoe — special light horseshoe
- charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
- chastity belt — a locking beltlike device with a loop designed to go between a woman's legs in order to prevent her from having sexual intercourse
- chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
- cheval screen — a fire screen, usually with a cloth panel, having supports at the ends and mounted on legs.
- chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.