12-letter words containing c, o, r, n
- carbon paper — Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers.
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
- carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- carcinogenic — A substance that is carcinogenic is likely to cause cancer.
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- cardan joint — type of universal joint
- career woman — A career woman is a woman with a career who is interested in working and progressing in her job, rather than staying at home looking after the house and children.
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- carlovingian — Carolingian
- carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
- carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
- carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
- carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
- carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
- carrion crow — a common predatory and scavenging European crow, Corvus corone, similar to the rook but having a pure black bill
- carry-on bag — a small bag that is taken inside an aircraft by hand personally by a passenger
- carryings-on — wild, extravagant, or immoral behavior
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
- cash journal — cashbook.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- catty-corner — Something that is catty-corner or kitty-corner from another thing is placed or arranged diagonally from it.
- cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
- ceiling rose — decorative plaster centrepiece
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- centre court — the main court of a tennis complex, esp at Wimbledon
- centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
- centrosphere — the portion of the centrosome surrounding the centriole; center of an aster
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- cerebrotonic — relating to or resembling a personality type characterized by shyness, introspection, and emotional restraint, and often associated with an ectomorphic physique
- ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.