12-letter words containing c, o, w, e
- counter-word — a word, often of short-lived popularity, widely used as an almost meaningless, automatic response.
- counterpower — an opposing power
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
- counterworld — an alternative world opposite to the virtual world
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- crowdsourced — Obtained by crowdsourcing.
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crown cutter — a hollow, thin-walled cylinder having teeth formed radially on the end and used for cutting round holes out of thin, flat stock.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- crown jewels — the jewellery, including the regalia, used by a sovereign on a state occasion
- crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- crowned head — a monarch
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- 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.
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- 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.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- highway code — In Britain, the Highway Code is an official book published by the Department of Transport, which contains the rules which tell people how to use public roads safely.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
- knocked down — hit and felled: by a vehicle, etc.
- knocked-down — composed of parts or units that can be disassembled: knocked-down furniture.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
- lower school — a school that is preparatory to one on a more advanced level.
- lower-income — earning less than average
- machine word — word (def 10).