12-letter words containing a, r, e, c, o
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conversation — If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.
- conversative — talkative
- conversional — the act or process of converting; state of being converted.
- cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
- cooperations — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- cooperatives — Plural form of cooperative.
- coordinately — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- coordinative — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- copperplates — Plural form of copperplate.
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- coralberries — Plural form of coralberry.
- corallaceous — having the nature of coral
- coram judice — before a court having the authority to hear and decide (the case in question).
- corbel table — a horizontal masonry construction, as a cornice or part of a wall, supported on corbels or on arches supported on corbels.
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- coresearcher — a joint researcher
- corn earworm — the larva of the noctuid moth Heliothis armigera, which feeds on maize and many other crop plants
- corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
- corner chair — a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.
- corner table — a table of the 18th century having a triangular top with a triangular drop leaf of the same size.
- corollaceous — of, relating to, resembling, or having a corolla
- coronal hole — a part of the solar corona that appears dark on optical and x-ray images and is characterized by low temperature and low density.
- corporealism — materialism
- corporealist — a materialist
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- corporealize — to make corporeal
- correctional — Correctional means related to prisons.
- correlatable — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- correlations — Plural form of correlation.
- correlatives — Plural form of correlative.
- corroborable — able to be corroborated
- corroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- corroborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corroborate.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- cotoneasters — Plural form of cotoneaster.
- cotortfeasor — (legal) A joint tortfeasor.
- cottage roll — a small pickled boneless ham
- cotyledonary — the primary or rudimentary leaf of the embryo of seed plants.
- council area — any of the 32 unitary authorities into which Scotland has been divided for administrative purposes since April 1996
- countenancer — One who countenances, favours, or supports.
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant