11-letter words containing o, c, n, r
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- county fair — a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.
- county farm — a farm maintained for the poor by a county.
- 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.
- covariation — a correlated variation
- covenanters — Plural form of covenanter.
- covenantors — Plural form of covenantor.
- cover point — a fielding position in the covers
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- cow country — a region of cattle ranches, as rural areas of the southwestern U.S., especially Texas.
- cow parsnip — any tall coarse umbelliferous plant of the genus Heracleum, such as H. sphondylium of Europe and Asia, having thick stems and flattened clusters of white or purple flowers
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- cracovienne — a fast dance from the Krakow region of Poland which became popular in Paris during the 19th century
- craft union — a labour organization membership of which is restricted to workers in a specified trade or craft
- craftswoman — A craftswoman is a woman who makes things skilfully with her hands.
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- crance iron — a metal ring or cap to which bobstays and shrouds are secured, at the forward end of a bowsprit.
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniognomy — the scientific study of the shape and characteristics of the skull
- craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
- craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
- cranioscopy — the study of the features of the human skull
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- 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.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- crescendoed — 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.
- crescendoes — Plural form of crescendo.
- crimination — An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination.
- criminatory — Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing.
- criminology — Criminology is the scientific study of crime and criminals.
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- 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)
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- crocodilian — any large predatory reptile of the order Crocodilia, which includes the crocodiles, alligators, and caymans. They live in or near water and have a long broad snout, powerful jaws, a four-chambered heart, and socketed teeth
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.