12-letter words containing c, a, t, e, r, o
- gerontocracy — government by a council of elders.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- heterocercal — having an unequally divided tail, characteristic of sharks, rays, and skates.
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- heterotactic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- home teacher — private tutor
- horometrical — Relating to horometry.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hyperchaotic — Of or pertaining to hyperchaos.
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.
- hyperreactor — a person who behaves in a hyperreactive manner
- hypothecator — to pledge to a creditor as security without delivering over; mortgage.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- incarcerator — A person who incarcerates.
- incineration — to burn or reduce to ashes; cremate.
- incinerators — Plural form of incinerator.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incoordinate — not coordinate; not coordinated.
- incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
- incorporates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incorporate.
- indoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inspectorate — the office or function of an inspector.
- inspectorial — Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interactions — Plural form of interaction.
- intercoastal — existing or done between seacoasts; involving two or more seacoasts.
- intercompany — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intercompare — (of members of a group) to compare each member against all other members
- intercostals — Plural form of intercostal.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- interoceanic — connecting or between oceans: an interoceanic canal.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intolerances — Plural form of intolerance.