12-letter words containing o, n, c, s
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross cousin — a cousin who is the child of one's father's sister or one's mother's brother
- cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
- cross-action — an action brought within the same lawsuit by one defendant against another defendant or against the plaintiff.
- cross-cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's brother or one's father's sister.
- 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-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- 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
- crossbencher — A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party.
- crosscurrent — a current in a river or sea flowing across another current
- crosscutting — a transverse cut or course.
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- crown jewels — the jewellery, including the regalia, used by a sovereign on a state occasion
- crucifixions — Plural form of crucifixion.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cryptonymous — having a code name or secret name
- culminations — The highest or climactic point of something, esp. as attained after a long time.
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- cumulonimbus — Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud, similar to cumulus, that extends to a great height and is associated with thunderstorms.
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- current cost — The current cost of assets is their current value, or what it would cost to replace them at this time.
- cushion pink — a low-growing mountain plant, Silene acaulis, of Europe and North America, having deep pink to purplish, solitary flowers and forming mosslike patches on rocky or barren ground.
- cyanogenesis — the release by certain plants, such as cherry laurel, of hydrogen cyanide, esp after wounding or invasion by pathogens
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cyclogenesis — the formation and development of a low-pressure storm system
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- cyclostyling — Present participle of cyclostyle.
- cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
- cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
- cytogenetics — the branch of genetics that correlates the structure, number, and behaviour of chromosomes with heredity and variation
- cytokinetics — (biology) The study of cytokinesis.
- cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- de-accession — to remove (an item) from a museum or library collection preparatory to selling it
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- declarations — Plural form of declaration.
- declensional — of declension
- declinations — Plural form of declination.