13-letter words that end in t
- building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
- built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
- bull elephant — an adult male elephant
- bureaucratist — a believer in bureaucracy
- business suit — a formal suit suitable for wearing to work
- butch haircut — a short haircut for men, similar to a crew cut.
- butterfly net — a lightweight, fine net on the end of a pole used for catching butterflies
- butterfly nut — wing nut.
- buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests
- cafe chantant — an intimate cabaret offering sophisticated musical entertainment.
- calcium light — limelight (sense 1)
- calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- camel cricket — cave cricket.
- campanologist — the principles or art of making bells, bell ringing, etc.
- can't hack it — If you say that someone can't hack it or couldn't hack it, you mean that they do not or did not have the qualities needed to do a task or cope with a situation.
- capital asset — fixed asset.
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
- caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
- carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
- carpenter ant — any of a genus (Camponotus) of large ants that build nests in wooden buildings, tree trunks, etc. by gnawing out a complicated series of chambers
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
- case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
- cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
- casualty list — a list of servicemen who have been killed, wounded, captured, or gone missing as a result of enemy action
- catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
- cattle market — A cattle market is a market where cattle are bought and sold.
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- character set — a set of characters to display on a computer screen or be printed out that are all of the same design
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- charles swart — Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
- chastity belt — a locking beltlike device with a loop designed to go between a woman's legs in order to prevent her from having sexual intercourse
- cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
- chemistry set — equipment and chemicals that enable a child to do experiments
- cheshire east — a unitary authority in NW England. Administrative centre: Sandbach. Pop: 358 900 (2008 est). Area: 1160 sq km (448 sq miles)
- chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
- child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- china cabinet — a cabinet in which china is stored when not in use
- chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
- chloroformist — a person who is skilled in the use of or who dispenses or provides chloroform as part of their job
- cinquecentist — an Italian artist or writer of the cinquecento