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12-letter words containing g, o, r

  • corregidores — the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
  • corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
  • corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
  • corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
  • cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
  • cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
  • cosponsoring — Present participle of cosponsor.
  • costermonger — a person who sells fruit, vegetables, etc, from a barrow
  • cottage roll — a small pickled boneless ham
  • cotton grass — any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum, whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts
  • couchsurfing — Couchsurfing is the practice of sleeping at the houses of several different people for a period of time without paying.
  • counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
  • counterargue — to argue against something
  • counterimage — a corresponding image
  • counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
  • countersigns — Plural form of countersign.
  • counterweigh — counterbalance
  • courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
  • court ruling — a decision made by a court
  • cover charge — A cover charge is a sum of money that you must pay in some restaurants and nightclubs in addition to the money that you pay there for your food and drink.
  • cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
  • craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
  • craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
  • 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.
  • cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
  • criminogenic — causing or promoting crime
  • crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
  • cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
  • criptography — (spelling)   It's spelled "cryptography".
  • 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.
  • cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
  • 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-legged — If someone is sitting cross-legged, they are sitting on the floor with their legs bent so that their knees point outwards.
  • cross-string — overstring.
  • crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
  • crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
  • crosscutting — a transverse cut or course.
  • crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
  • crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
  • crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
  • cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
  • cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
  • cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
  • cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
  • cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
  • cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
  • cryptologist — cryptography.
  • cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
  • curling iron — A curling iron is a metal device, resembling scissors, that you heat and use to form curls in your hair.
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