12-letter words containing o, c, a, n
- controversal — (obsolete, rare) Facing opposite directions.
- contumacious — stubbornly resistant to authority; wilfully obstinate
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- convalescent — Convalescent means relating to convalescence.
- convalescing — to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
- convectional — Physics. the transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of a liquid or gas.
- conventional — Someone who is conventional has behaviour or opinions that are ordinary and normal.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conversation — If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.
- conversative — talkative
- conversional — the act or process of converting; state of being converted.
- conveyancing — Conveyancing is the process of transferring the legal ownership of property.
- convictional — a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in his conviction in the rightness of his position.
- convivialist — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- conviviality — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- convocations — Plural form of convocation.
- convulsional — relating to convulsions
- conway's law — (project, humour) The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
- cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
- cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- cooperations — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- coordinately — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- coordinating — Present participle of coordinate.
- coordination — Coordination means organizing the activities of two or more groups so that they work together efficiently and know what the others are doing.
- coordinative — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- coordinators — Plural form of coordinator.
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- copy machine — A copy machine is the same as a copier.
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- coquilla nut — the nut of a South American palm tree, Attalea funifera, having a hard brown shell used for carving
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- corn earworm — the larva of the noctuid moth Heliothis armigera, which feeds on maize and many other crop plants
- corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
- corner chair — a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.
- corner table — a table of the 18th century having a triangular top with a triangular drop leaf of the same size.
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- coronagraphs — Plural form of coronagraph.
- coronal hole — a part of the solar corona that appears dark on optical and x-ray images and is characterized by low temperature and low density.
- corotational — (astronomy) That rotates in conjunction with another body.
- corporations — Plural form of corporation.
- correctional — Correctional means related to prisons.
- correlations — Plural form of correlation.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- coscinomancy — a form of divination involving the interpretation of the movement of a sieve suspended by shears
- cosmeticians — Plural form of cosmetician.
- cosmogonical — Of or pertaining to cosmogony.