11-letter words containing c, o, r, a
- air officer — a term used to denote the appointment of any officer in the Royal Air Force above the rank of Air Commodore to a position of command
- alarm clock — An alarm clock is a clock that you can set to make a noise so that it wakes you up at a particular time.
- album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
- alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- alkali rock — any igneous rock with a marked preponderance of alkali and a low percentage of silica.
- allegorical — An allegorical story, poem, or painting uses allegory.
- allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
- allocheiria — a medical condition in which sensation is felt at a different point on the body from that stimulated
- allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
- allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
- allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
- alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
- alt.sources — (messaging, programming) A Usenet newsgroup for posting program source code.
- altar cloth — the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
- altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
- amen corner — in some rural Protestant churches, the seats to the minister's right, once occupied by those leading the responsive amens
- amenorrheic — of or relating to amenorrhea
- amphichroic — producing two colours, one on reacting with an acid, the other on reacting with a base
- amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.
- anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
- anachronist — A person who has anachronistic views or habits.
- anachronize — To refer to, or put into, a wrong time.
- anachronous — relating to anachronism; misplaced chronologically
- anacreontic — in the manner of the Greek lyric poet Anacreon (?572–?488 bc), noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
- anal erotic — a person who experiences sexual gratification of the anal area
- anaphorical — of or relating to an anaphora
- anaplerotic — of or relating to anaplerosis
- ancestorial — of, belonging to, or relating to ancestors
- anchor baby — a term used to refer to a baby born to an undocumented mother in a country where the baby becomes a citizen at birth, especially when the birth is planned to facilitate eventual legal residency for the family.
- anchor ball — a day shape consisting of a black ball not less than 2 feet (0.6 meters) in diameter, displayed in the fore rigging of a vessel at anchor.
- anchor bell — a bell rung in foggy weather by a vessel at anchor.
- anchor bolt — any of several kinds of bolts inserted and fixed in masonry as a hold for timbers, shelves, etc.
- anchor buoy — a buoy used to indicate the location of an underwater anchor.
- anchor deck — a small forecastle housing the machinery for operating the anchors of a ship.
- anchor ring — a ring made from an iron bar of circular cross-section
- anchor shot — grapple shot.
- anchor span — (on a suspension or cantilever bridge) a span from an anchorage to the nearest pier or tower.
- anchorwoman — The anchorwoman on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the woman who presents it.
- anchorwomen — Plural form of anchorwoman.
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- androphilic — Sexually attracted to men.
- androphobic — Exhibiting androphobia; fearful of men.
- anemochores — Plural form of anemochore.
- anfractuous — characterized by twists and turns; convoluted
- animatronic — of, concerned with, or operated by animatronics
- anisocarpic — (of a flower) having a lower number of carpels than of other floral parts.
- anisocercal — (of fish) having unequal tail-fin lobes
- anisometric — not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts or unequal measurements