13-letter words containing or
- corticotropin — ACTH
- cosignatories — Plural form of cosignatory.
- cosponsorship — joint sponsorship
- costimulatory — Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
- cotemporality — The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
- 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)
- cotes-du-nord — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- cotransporter — (biochemistry) An integral membrane protein that actively transports molecules by using the concentration gradient of one molecule or ion concentration to force the other molecule or ion against its gradient.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- count rumford — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- counter-order — an order which revokes a previous order
- counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- countereffort — an effort responding to, or retaliating against, another effort
- counterorders — Plural form of counterorder.
- counterreform — a reform which opposes or acts against another reform
- countertenors — Plural form of countertenor.
- counterterror — designed to act against terrorism
- country store — a general store, especially in a rural or resort area.
- cream-colored — yellowish-white
- cremorne bolt — (on a French window or the like) a pair of rods, moved by a knob mechanism, sliding into sockets in the head and sill of the opening to provide a secure fastening.
- crest coronet — coronet (def 6).
- crest-coronet — a small crown.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
- custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
- debt of honor — a gambling debt: not legally enforceable
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- deconstructor — an adherent to the theory of deconstruction
- decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
- decortication — the act or process of decorticating.
- deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- demeritorious — a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency: If you receive four demerits during a term, you will be expelled from school.
- demonstrators — a person or thing that demonstrates.
- demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
- deodorisation — Alternative form of deodorization.
- deodorization — The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.
- deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
- depressomotor — retarding motor activity
- deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
- desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- deteriorating — Become progressively worse.
- deterioration — the act or process of deteriorating.