12-letter words containing c, r, o, s, d
- cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
- close-reefed — having most or all of the sail reefs taken in.
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
- cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- codiscoverer — a fellow discoverer
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- cold-pressed — (of an unrefined oil such as olive oil) produced by pressing the parent seed, nut, or grain at the lowest possible temperature without any further pressing
- colour slide — a colour transparency
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- commanderies — the office or rank of a commander.
- commiserated — Simple past tense and past participle of commiserate.
- compass card — a compass in the form of a card that rotates so that "0°" or "North" points to magnetic north
- compressedly — in a compressed manner
- computerised — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- concordances — Plural form of concordance.
- conditioners — Plural form of conditioner.
- confederates — Plural form of confederate.
- conidiospore — a conidium
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- considerance — consideration
- considerated — Simple past tense and past participle of considerate.
- consolidator — a person or thing that consolidates
- consternated — to dismay, confuse, or terrify.
- consumerized — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
- contradances — Plural form of contradance.
- coordinators — Plural form of coordinator.
- cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
- corespondent — a person charged with having committed adultery with the wife or husband from whom a divorce is being sought
- corregidores — the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
- corresponded — to be in agreement or conformity (often followed by with or to): His actions do not correspond with his words.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
- credit score — A borrower's credit score is a number calculated by a credit bureau to express how likely they are to be able to pay back their loans.
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crisscrossed — crossed over each other
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross swords — to argue or fight
- cross-bedded — having irregular laminations, as strata of sandstone, inclining in various directions not coincident with the general stratification.
- cross-border — Cross-border trade occurs between companies in different countries.