12-letter words containing e, n, c, r, o
- country lane — a narrow country road, often bordered by hedges
- country life — life in the country
- country mile — a long way
- country seat — A country seat is a large house with land in the country which is owned by someone who also owns a house in a town.
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- court tennis — a variety of tennis played indoors on a specially constructed court having high cement walls off which the ball may be played, points being made chiefly by stroking the ball into any of three openings in the walls of the court. Compare penthouse (def 7), tambour (def 7), winning opening.
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- craniometric — the science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- creationists — Plural form of creationist.
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crenellation — to furnish with crenels or battlements.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- creolization — (of a pidgin language) the process of becoming a creole
- 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.
- criminogenic — causing or promoting crime
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- crossbencher — A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party.
- crosscurrent — a current in a river or sea flowing across another current
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- 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
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- current cost — The current cost of assets is their current value, or what it would cost to replace them at this time.
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.