13-letter words containing a, p, r, o, s
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
- coconspirator — a fellow conspirator
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- commandership — a person who commands.
- company store — a retail store operated by a company for the convenience of the employees, who are required to buy from the store.
- comparativist — a comparatist
- compare notes — to exchange opinions
- compass north — magnetic north, as indicated on a particular compass at a given moment.
- compatriotism — a native or inhabitant of one's own country; fellow countryman or countrywoman.
- compressional — relating to compression
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- conspiracists — Plural form of conspiracist.
- conspiratress — a woman who conspires
- conspurcation — the act of defiling
- constupration — the act of raping or violating
- contact sport — a sport that involves physical contact between participants, such as rugby
- containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
- contemplators — Plural form of contemplator.
- contrapuntist — a composer skilled in counterpoint
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
- copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
- copperas cove — a town in central Texas.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
- cornish pasty — A Cornish pasty is a small pie with meat and vegetables inside.
- corporateness — the state of being a corporate body
- corporativism — corporatism
- corporealness — The state or quality of being corporeal.
- corporisation — The forming into one body; embodiment.
- corsican pine — a pine tree, a variant of the black pine Pinus nigra var maritime, originally native to Corsica and neighbouring Mediterranean regions
- corticospinal — Of, or pertaining to, or connecting the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.
- 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.
- 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.
- counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
- court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
- craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
- cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- crash program — a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem: a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- crookes space — a dark region near the cathode in some low-pressure gas-discharge tubes
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc