11-letter words containing n, o, c, r, e, t
- 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.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- covenanters — Plural form of covenanter.
- covenantors — Plural form of covenantor.
- cover point — a fielding position in the covers
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- 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
- creationary — Of or relating to creation.
- creationism — Creationism is the belief that the account of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and that the theory of evolution is incorrect.
- creationist — A creationist is someone who believes that the story of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and who rejects the theory of evolution.
- credit note — A credit note is a piece of paper that a shop gives you when you return goods that you have bought from it. It states that you are entitled to take goods of the same value without paying for them.
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- crinkleroot — any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.
- crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
- crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
- cryokinetic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of cryokinesis.
- cryptogenic — (esp of diseases) of unknown or obscure origin
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cyproterone — an antiandrogen drug that suppresses testosterone in the body
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
- declinatory — a plea that has the aim of demonstrating that the accused is exempt from legal authority and punishment
- decolorants — Plural form of decolorant.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decorations — Plural form of decoration.
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deforcement — (legal) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
- demarcation — Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
- deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
- dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.