12-letter words containing o, n, e, y
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
- by the dozen — in large quantities
- bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
- cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
- carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
- carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
- cash economy — an economic system, or part of one, in which financial transactions are carried out in cash rather than via direct debit, standing order, bank transfer, or credit card
- catty-corner — Something that is catty-corner or kitty-corner from another thing is placed or arranged diagonally from it.
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- chemosensory — sensitive to chemical stimuli, as the sensory nerve endings that mediate taste and smell.
- cherrystones — Plural form of cherrystone.
- chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinese copy — an exact copy of an original
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
- chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
- city edition — an early edition of a daily newspaper on sale locally, usually a later edition than the one sent for out-of-town distribution.
- clairvoyance — the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
- clap eyes on — to catch sight of
- clayton fern — a tall fern, Osmunda claytoniana, of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having an interruption of growth in the center of some fronds.
- clergyperson — a member of the clergy
- cockeyedness — the condition of being cockeyed
- codependency — of or relating to a relationship in which one person is physically or psychologically addicted, as to alcohol or gambling, and the other person is psychologically dependent on the first in an unhealthy way.
- coincidently — in a coincident manner
- collinearity — lying in the same straight line.
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- company time — the regular hours during which employees are expected to work
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- compellingly — in a way that demands attention and interest
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- compound eye — the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia)
- compound key — (database) (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
- concealingly — in a concealing manner
- conceptually — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
- concessively — in a concessive manner
- conclusively — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- concurrently — occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side: concurrent attacks by land, sea, and air.
- condemnatory — Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.