13-letter words containing ar
- complementary — Complementary things are different from each other but make a good combination.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- concert party — a musical entertainment popular in the early 20th century, esp one at a British seaside resort
- concessionary — A concessionary price is a special price which is lower than the normal one and which is often given to old people, students, and the unemployed.
- conclusionary — conclusory
- concretionary — formed by concretion; consisting of concreted matter or masses.
- confarreation — (in ancient Rome) the highest form of marriage, which was marked by the offering of a cake to Jupiter
- confectionary — a place where confections are kept or made
- confessionary — of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.
- consimilarity — the condition of being mutually alike
- container car — a flatcar or gondola car for carrying a number of standard, separate, removable containers.
- contrarianism — Beliefs and practices of a contrarian.
- contrarieties — Plural form of contrariety.
- contravariant — (category theory, of a functor) which reverses composition.
- contre-partie — (in buhlwork) an inlay composed of a design in tortoise shell on a background of brass.
- control board — a panel containing switches, dials, and other equipment for regulating electrical devices, lights, etc.
- control chart — a chart on which observed values of a variable are plotted, usually against the expected value of the variable and its allowable deviation, so that excessive variations in the quality, quantity, etc, of the variable can be detected
- controversary — (obsolete) controversial.
- conventionary — (of a form of tenure) fixed by convention as opposed to custom
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
- corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
- coronary vein — any of several veins that receive blood from the heart wall and empty into the coronary sinus.
- corticobulbar — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the brainstem, especially with regard to the corticobulbar tract, a white matter pathway connecting the two.
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
- côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
- count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
- counter-argue — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
- counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- court martial — A court martial is a trial in a military court of a member of the armed forces who is charged with breaking a military law.
- court-martial — a court consisting of military or naval personnel appointed by a commander to try charges of offenses by soldiers, sailors, etc., against military or naval law.
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
- crème caramel — a dessert made of eggs, sugar, milk, etc, topped with caramel
- crimean tatar — a member of a Turkic people who lived in the Crimea before emigration to Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries and deportations to Soviet central Asia after World War II.
- cross the bar — to die
- cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- crystal clear — Water that is crystal clear is absolutely clear and transparent like glass.
- crystal-clear — absolutely clear; transparent; lucid.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste