13-letter words containing a, n, o
- counter-argue — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- counteractant — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- counteracting — Present participle of counteract.
- counteraction — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- counteractive — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- counterattack — If you counterattack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
- countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
- countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.
- counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
- counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
- countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
- counterstains — Plural form of counterstain.
- counterstream — a stream (of matter) which travels in the opposite direction
- countertactic — an opposing tactic
- counterthreat — an opposing or retaliatory threat
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- country dance — a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
- country-dance — a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- crack cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
- cranberry bog — a bog in which cranberry plants are cultivated.
- cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- crenellations — the battlements on a building
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
- crop rotation — the system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cross-channel — Cross-Channel travel is travel across the English Channel, especially by boat.
- cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
- crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
- crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
- crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
- crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible