12-letter words containing i, r, t
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- country life — life in the country
- country mile — a long way
- country risk — the risk associated with an overseas investment due to the conditions prevailing in the country in which it is made
- court action — a legal action
- court ruling — a decision made by a court
- 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.
- courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- craniometric — the science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- creationists — Plural form of creationist.
- creativeness — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativities — the state or quality of being creative.
- credentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- credit check — a check performed by a company selling goods on credit to establish if a potential customer is creditworthy
- credit entry — an accounting entry showing income or capital assets
- credit limit — Your credit limit is the amount of debt that you are allowed, for example, by your credit card company.
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- 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.
- credit terms — the terms and conditions under which an institution extends credit to a person
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- crenellation — to furnish with crenels or battlements.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- creolization — (of a pidgin language) the process of becoming a creole
- crested iris — a low iris, Iris cristata, of the eastern and central U.S., having faintly fragrant, yellow-crested, lilac-dotted flowers.
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- crime writer — a writer who writes detective fiction
- crime-buster — a law officer who specializes in fighting large-scale organized crime
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2
- criticalness — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- criticisable — Alternative form of criticizable.
- criticizable — to censure or find fault with.
- 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-action — an action brought within the same lawsuit by one defendant against another defendant or against the plaintiff.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cross-stitch — Cross-stitch is a type of decorative sewing where one stitch crosses another.