12-letter words containing c, a, t, r, o
- coordinators — Plural form of coordinator.
- 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.
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- 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.
- cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
- 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
- corner table — a table of the 18th century having a triangular top with a triangular drop leaf of the same size.
- corotational — (astronomy) That rotates in conjunction with another body.
- corporations — Plural form of corporation.
- corporealist — a materialist
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- 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.
- corroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- corroborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corroborate.
- corroborator — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
- cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- cotoneasters — Plural form of cotoneaster.
- cotortfeasor — (legal) A joint tortfeasor.
- cottage roll — a small pickled boneless ham
- cotton grass — any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum, whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts
- cottonocracy — a group amongst the upper class consisting of those members whose wealth comes from the cotton trade
- cotyledonary — the primary or rudimentary leaf of the embryo of seed plants.
- countenancer — One who countenances, favours, or supports.
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
- counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- counter-raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- counteracted — Simple past tense and past participle of counteract.
- counteracter — Something that counteracts.
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- counterargue — to argue against something
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- counterbrace — a rope on the leeward side of a ship, controlling the position of the fore-topsail
- countercharm — an object or action that is capable of destroying a magical charm
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- counterearth — (in Pythagorean astronomy) a planet, out of sight from our part of the earth, whose shadow upon the sun and moon, cast by a central fire that is also out of sight, causes the eclipses.
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- countermarch — to march or cause to march back along the same route
- counterpanes — Plural form of counterpane.
- counterparts — a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.