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

  • seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
  • shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
  • sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • sorosilicate — any of the silicates in which each silicate tetrahedron shares one of its four oxygen atoms with a neighboring tetrahedron, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being two to seven.
  • spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
  • sportscaster — A sportscaster is a radio or television broadcaster who describes or comments on sporting events.
  • star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
  • stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
  • stereoacuity — the ability of a person to see objects as separate entities along a range of distances
  • stereocamera — a stereoscopic camera.
  • stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
  • stereotactic — movement of an organism in response to contact with a solid.
  • sternocostal — of, relating to, or situated between the sternum and ribs.
  • stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
  • storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
  • storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.
  • styracaceous — belonging to the Styracaceae, the storax family of plants.
  • sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • testificator — a person who witnesses
  • tetrachotomy — the segmentation of something into four parts
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • theocratical — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
  • theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.
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