12-letter words containing c, o, w, a, n
- acknowledged — recognized as being true or existing
- acknowledger — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- acknowledges — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- analog watch — a watch that represents time by the position of hands on a dial.
- anchor watch — a deck watch maintained by the crew of a ship at anchor.
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
- brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- can of worms — a complicated problem
- cap and gown — a cap with a flat top ( mortarboard) and a long robe, worn at some academic ceremonies, as commencement, and often used to symbolize the academic life
- 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.
- carrion crow — a common predatory and scavenging European crow, Corvus corone, similar to the rook but having a pure black bill
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- cochairwoman — a woman who cochairs an organization
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- companionway — A companionway is a staircase or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship.
- company town — a town built by a company for its employees
- contract law — the branch of law that deals with contracts
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- conway's law — (project, humour) The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- corn earworm — the larva of the noctuid moth Heliothis armigera, which feeds on maize and many other crop plants
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
- councilwoman — A councilwoman is a woman who is a member of a local council.
- counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- crown octavo — a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 8vo.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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