11-letter words containing e, t, r
- countersign — If you countersign a document, you sign it after someone else has signed it.
- countersing — (ethology, of a bird) To sing in response to the song of another.
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
- counterstep — an opposing step or measure
- countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
- countersuit — a legal claim made as a reaction to a claim made against one
- countersunk — driven or sunk into an enlarged hole
- counterterm — Antithesis.
- countertops — Plural form of countertop.
- counterturn — a turn in an opposing or contrary direction.
- countertype — an opposite type
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
- counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- countryseat — a house or estate in the country
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- coursemates — Plural form of coursemate.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- court dress — the formal clothing worn at court
- court order — a command by a court
- courteously — having or showing good manners; polite.
- courtesy of — without charge, as a gesture of goodwill
- courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
- courtierism — the characteristic practices or qualities of a courtier
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- cove stripe — a decorative stripe painted along the sheer strake of a vessel, esp of a sailing boat
- covenanters — Plural form of covenanter.
- covenantors — Plural form of covenantor.
- cover point — a fielding position in the covers
- cover sheet — top page of a document
- cover story — a story that is alluded to or illustrated on the cover of a magazine
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- covert coat — a short topcoat worn for hunting
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- cpt theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- craft knife — a knife used for paper crafts, etc, that has a sharp replaceable blade
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- crater lake — a lake in the crater of an extinct volcano in SW Oregon, in Crater Lake National Park. 20 sq. mi. (52 sq. km); 1996 feet (608 meters) deep.