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13-letter words containing s, e, n, a, r, i

  • candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
  • 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.
  • car insurance — financial protection against loss as a result of an automobile accident or theft
  • caravansaries — Plural form of caravansary.
  • caravanserais — Plural form of caravanserai.
  • 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
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
  • cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
  • caribbean sea — an almost landlocked sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, bounded by the Caribbean islands, Central America, and the N coast of South America. Area: 2 718 200 sq km (1 049 500 sq miles)
  • carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
  • carnivalesque — characteristic of, suitable for, or like a carnival
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
  • caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
  • 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)
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
  • 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.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
  • chancelleries — Plural form of chancellery.
  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
  • charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
  • christian era — the period beginning with the year of Christ's birth. Dates in this era are labelled ad, those previous to it bc
  • christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
  • chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
  • ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • circumstances — someone's financial situation
  • citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
  • civil servant — A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.
  • clairsentient — Exhibiting or pertaining to clairsentience.
  • clarinettists — Plural form of clarinettist.
  • clearing sale — the auction of plant, stock, and effects of a country property, esp after the property has changed hands
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
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