13-letter words containing c, o, n, e
- country store — a general store, especially in a rural or resort area.
- 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.
- countrypeople — countryfolk.
- countryperson — Someone who is from a countryside background.
- county police — (in the US) the police of a particular county
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- courteousness — having or showing good manners; polite.
- 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
- cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- cover version — A cover version of a song is a version of it recorded by a singer or band who did not originally perform the song.
- cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
- 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.
- covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
- coversed sine — obsolete function in trigonometry
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- coveteousness — Alternative spelling of covetousness.
- cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
- crack cocaine — Crack cocaine is a form of the drug cocaine which has been purified and made into crystals.
- craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
- cranberry bog — a bog in which cranberry plants are cultivated.
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- cremorne bolt — (on a French window or the like) a pair of rods, moved by a knob mechanism, sliding into sockets in the head and sill of the opening to provide a secure fastening.
- crenellations — the battlements on a building
- crescent moon — the moon seen as a crescent when waxing or waning
- crest coronet — coronet (def 6).
- crest-coronet — a small crown.
- 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
- criminousness — the quality or state of being criminous
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- cross oneself — to outline the form of a cross as a Christian religious act by moving the hand from the forehead to the breast and then from one shoulder to the other
- cross-benches — (in the UK parliament) an area for members who are not allied to a particular party
- cross-channel — Cross-Channel travel is travel across the English Channel, especially by boat.
- cross-current — A cross-current is a current in a river or sea that flows across another current.
- 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-section — If you refer to a cross-section of particular things or people, you mean a group of them that you think is typical or representative of all of them.
- cross-selling — to sell or try to sell (similar or related products or services) to an existing customer.
- cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
- crossbenchers — Plural form of crossbencher.
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- crosscurrents — Plural form of crosscurrent.
- crossdressing — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.