12-letter words containing a, r, e, n, c
- countertrade — international trade in which payment is made in goods rather than currency
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- countervalue — An equivalent or equal, especially in military strategy.
- counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
- country lane — a narrow country road, often bordered by hedges
- country seat — A country seat is a large house with land in the country which is owned by someone who also owns a house in a town.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- craft centre — a large shop that sells craftwork
- craftsperson — an artisan
- crane driver — a person who drives a crane
- craniometric — the science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- crapehanging — the practice of hanging crape, esp as a sign of mourning
- crassamentum — a blood clot
- crassulacean — as in crassulacean acid metabolism, a method of photosynthesis
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- crawler lane — a lane on an uphill section of a motorway reserved for slow vehicles
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- creationists — Plural form of creationist.
- creativeness — having the quality or power of creating.
- credentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- crenellation — to furnish with crenels or battlements.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- creolization — (of a pidgin language) the process of becoming a creole
- crepe-hanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- criticalness — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- crowned head — a monarch
- cryptanalyze — to study (a cryptogram) for the purpose of discovering the clear meaning; break (a code, cipher, etc.).
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- currency bar — a long narrow iron bar, often sword-like or spear-like in shape, dating from the pre-Roman and Roman period in Britain; the purpose of currency bars is not certain, and while they may have been used in trade, they may have had a ritual significance
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain line — the last line of a scene, act, etc., as in a play; tag line.
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- curtain time — the time at which a play or other performance is scheduled to begin.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.