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

  • 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.
  • buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
  • cabbage rose — a rose, Rosa centifolia, with a round compact full-petalled head
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • cacao butter — cocoa butter
  • cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • camerapeople — a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or TV camera.
  • cameraperson — a camera operator
  • camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
  • canorousness — The quality of being musical.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
  • canton river — Zhu Jiang.
  • canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape comorin — a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • capricornean — born under or characteristic of Capricorn
  • carbocholine — carbachol.
  • carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
  • carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
  • carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
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