14-letter words containing c, o, t, e
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- counterpersons — Plural form of counterperson.
- counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
- counterpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpoint.
- counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- counterproject — an opposing project or scheme
- counterprotest — a protest which opposes an existing protest
- counterpunched — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpunch.
- counterpuncher — a boxer who waits for an opponent to attack before punching
- counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- countersigning — Present participle of countersign.
- countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- country people — people who live in the country
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
- court reporter — a reporter who writes about legal trials
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
- covered market — an indoor market
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- cross reaction — an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.
- cross relation — the simultaneous or successive occurrence of a note and its chromatic alteration, as C and C57395, in different voices; false relation
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- cross trainers — training shoes for doing cross training
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
- cross-question — If you cross-question someone, you ask them a lot of questions about something.