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12-letter words containing c, o, r, a

  • contrariness — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
  • contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
  • contrasexual — (of a woman) appearing to defy the female sexual stereotype by being content to be single and childless while being sexually active and financially independent
  • contrastable — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
  • contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
  • contributary — contributory
  • contriturate — to triturate completely
  • contrivances — Plural form of contrivance.
  • controllable — If something is controllable you are able to control or influence it.
  • controllably — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • controversal — (obsolete, rare) Facing opposite directions.
  • conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
  • conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
  • conversation — If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.
  • conversative — talkative
  • conversional — the act or process of converting; state of being converted.
  • cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
  • cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
  • coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
  • cooperations — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
  • cooperatives — Plural form of cooperative.
  • coordinately — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • coordinating — Present participle of coordinate.
  • coordination — Coordination means organizing the activities of two or more groups so that they work together efficiently and know what the others are doing.
  • coordinative — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • 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
  • coprophagous — (esp of certain beetles) feeding on dung
  • coprophiliac — of or relating to coprophilia
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
  • coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
  • coralberries — Plural form of coralberry.
  • corallaceous — having the nature of coral
  • coram judice — before a court having the authority to hear and decide (the case in question).
  • coram populo — in the presence of the people; publicly
  • 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.
  • corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
  • cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
  • core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
  • 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
  • coresearcher — a joint researcher
  • cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
  • corn earworm — the larva of the noctuid moth Heliothis armigera, which feeds on maize and many other crop plants
  • corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
  • corner chair — a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.
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