12-letter words containing o, p, e, r
- counterreply — a reply made in response to a reply; rejoinder.
- counterscarp — the outer side of the ditch of a fort
- counterspell — a spell or charm which acts against another spell, esp in fantasy or role-playing games
- counterspies — Plural form of counterspy.
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- countertypes — Plural form of countertype.
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- crepusculous — Alternative form of crepuscular.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
- croquet hoop — a hoop stuck into a croquet lawn
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryopreserve — to preserve (living tissue) at a very low temperature
- cryptolocker — (security) The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cryptosystem — a system for encoding and decoding secret messages.
- cub reporter — A cub reporter is a young newspaper journalist who is still being trained.
- cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
- curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- cybertrooper — (in Malaysia) An activist who uses cyberspace.
- cyclopropane — a colourless flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, used in medicine as an anaesthetic; trimethylene. It is a cycloalkane with molecules containing rings of three carbon atoms. Formula: C3H6; boiling pt: –34°C
- 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
- d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- decompressed — Simple past tense and past participle of decompress.
- decompresses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decompress.
- decompressor — a device for lowering motor engine compression
- delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- demographers — Plural form of demographer.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- depo-provera — a synthetic progestogen, C24H34O4, used to treat uterine or kidney cancer, to prevent conception for long periods, etc.