12-letter words containing a, c, r, s
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- canting arms — a coat of arms making visual reference to the surname of its owner
- canvas chair — a chair in which the seat and back are made from canvas
- caparisoning — Present participle of caparison.
- cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
- caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- car expenses — incidental money spent on the operation of a car during the performance of a job, commission, etc, usually reimbursed by an employer or allowable against tax
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- car-crash tv — television programmes that show deliberately controversial, disturbing, or horrific material
- caravan site — A caravan site is an area of land where people can stay in a caravan on holiday, or where people live in caravans.
- caravanserai — (in some Eastern countries esp formerly) a large inn enclosing a courtyard providing accommodation for caravans
- caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- carbocations — Plural form of carbocation.
- carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
- carbon brush — a small block of carbon used to convey current between the stationary and moving parts of an electric generator, motor, etc
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cardinal sin — If you describe an action as a cardinal sin, you are indicating that some people strongly disapprove of it.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
- cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- carefreeness — without anxiety or worry.
- carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
- carey street — (formerly) the street in which the London bankruptcy court was situated
- caricaturist — A caricaturist is a person who shows other people in an exaggerated way in order to be humorous or critical, especially in drawings or cartoons.
- carisoprodol — a crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 12 H 24 N 2 O 4 , used as a muscle relaxant.
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
- carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
- carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
- carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
- carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
- carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
- carpophagous — feeding on fruit
- carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
- carryings-on — wild, extravagant, or immoral behavior
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- case grammar — a system of grammatical description based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence
- case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
- casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
- cash journal — cashbook.