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13-letter words starting with ca

  • cannonballing — Present participle of cannonball.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • canonical age — the age specified by canon law when a person becomes eligible to participate in a certain rite or hold a certain office.
  • canthaxanthin — an orange carotenoid, C40H52O2, that is put in feed for poultry and feed for farmed salmon and trout
  • cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
  • canton enamel — Chinese enamelware similar to Limoges.
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • cantonization — the process of dividing into cantons
  • cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
  • cap and bells — the traditional garb of a court jester, including a cap with bells attached to it
  • cap-and-trade — denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment
  • capaciousness — capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.
  • cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • cape hatteras — a promontory off the E coast of North Carolina, on Hatteras Island, which is situated between Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic: known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" for its danger to shipping
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
  • cape-flattery — Cape, a cape in NW Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
  • capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
  • capital asset — fixed asset.
  • capital gains — Capital gains are the profits that you make when you buy something and then sell it again at a higher price.
  • capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
  • capital lease — A capital lease is a lease which is treated as the purchase of the asset that is being leased.
  • capital stock — the par value of the total share capital that a company is authorized to issue
  • capitalizable — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
  • capitulations — Plural form of capitulation.
  • caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
  • caprivi strip — narrow strip of land, c. 50 mi (80 km) wide, of NE Namibia, extending eastward to the Zambezi River: c. 300 mi (483 km) long
  • caprylic acid — a fatty acid, (CH3)(CH2)6COOH, with a rancid taste: used in the synthesis of dyes, drugs, perfumes, etc.
  • capsaicinoids — Plural form of capsaicinoid.
  • capstan lathe — a lathe for repetitive work, having a rotatable turret resembling a capstan to hold tools for successive operations
  • capstan table — drum table.
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • capsule shell — A capsule shell is an outer skin in which a medicinal substance is contained.
  • capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
  • captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
  • captivatingly — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
  • car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
  • car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
  • car insurance — financial protection against loss as a result of an automobile accident or theft
  • caramel cream — a dessert made of eggs, sugar, milk, etc, topped with caramel
  • caravansaries — Plural form of caravansary.
  • caravanserais — Plural form of caravanserai.
  • caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
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