12-letter words containing c, o, n, w
- counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
- counterworld — an alternative world opposite to the virtual world
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- crown colony — a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown
- crown cutter — a hollow, thin-walled cylinder having teeth formed radially on the end and used for cutting round holes out of thin, flat stock.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- crown jewels — the jewellery, including the regalia, used by a sovereign on a state occasion
- crown octavo — a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 8vo.
- crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- crown quarto — a size of book, about 7½ × 10 inches (19 × 25 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 4to.
- crowned head — a monarch
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- flow control — (communications, protocol) The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- knocked down — hit and felled: by a vehicle, etc.
- knocked-down — composed of parts or units that can be disassembled: knocked-down furniture.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
- lower-income — earning less than average
- machine word — word (def 10).
- machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- money cowrie — the highly polished, usually brightly colored shell of a marine gastropod of the genus Cypraea, as that of C. moneta (money cowrie) used as money in certain parts of Asia and Africa, or that of C. tigris, used for ornament.
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- network card — network interface controller
- new covenant — (sometimes initial capital letters) (in Christian exegesis) the promises of salvation made by God to humans individually, based on divine grace rather than Mosaic Law.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- new rochelle — a city in SE New York, near New York City.