13-letter words containing s, e, r, i, c, o
- 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
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
- carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
- carol service — a service, held in a church around Christmas, at which Christmas carols are sung
- caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
- catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
- catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- 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
- celluliferous — making or consisting of small cells
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- 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.
- ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
- chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
- chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
- charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
- charlier shoe — special light horseshoe
- chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
- cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
- chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- child process — (operating system) A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
- child version — (system management) In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
- chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
- cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
- chorepiscopal — (in early Christianity) relating to or connected with a local bishop
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrestomathic — (of teaching or learning) That has a practical use.
- chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
- chromesthesia — (neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia.
- chromospheric — Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
- chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
- chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
- chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
- ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
- cinema goers' — filmgoer.
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.