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13-letter words containing t, a, u, o, s

  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • be nuts about — to be greatly in love with
  • beacon status — a ranking awarded by the government to an organization, rendering it eligible for extra funding, and aimed at encouraging organizations to share good practice with each other
  • beauteousness — The state or quality of being beauteous.
  • bibliolatrous — characterized by bibliolatry
  • blue asbestos — a common name for the mineral crocidolite, a variety of asbestos found in Africa and Australia
  • boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
  • bouncy castle — A bouncy castle is a large object filled with air, often in the shape of a castle, which children play on at a fairground or other outdoor event.
  • boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
  • buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
  • busto arsizio — a city in Lombardy, N Italy.
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • capitulations — Plural form of capitulation.
  • capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
  • 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.
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • casualisation — (economics) The process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.
  • casualization — the altering of working practices so that regular workers are re-employed on a casual or short-term basis
  • cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
  • 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.
  • chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
  • chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • co-authorship — the state a coauthor
  • coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • colloquialist — a skilled speaker
  • colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
  • come a stumer — to crash financially
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
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