7-letter words containing o, r, t, c
- cortona — a town in central Italy, in Tuscany: Roman and Etruscan remains, 15th-century cathedral. Pop: 22 048 (2001)
- coryate — Thomas, 1577–1617, English traveler and author.
- costard — an English variety of apple tree
- costars — Plural form of costar.
- costner — Kevin. born 1955, US film actor: his films include Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1990), Dances with Wolves (1990; also directed), JFK (1991), Waterworld (1995), Open Range (2003), and the TV mini-series Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
- costrel — a flask, usually of earthenware or leather
- coterie — A coterie of a particular kind is a small group of people who are close friends or have a common interest, and who do not want other people to join them.
- cothurn — A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage.
- cotters — Plural form of cotter.
- cottier — (in Ireland) a peasant farming a smallholding under cottier tenure (the holding of not more than half an acre at a rent of not more than five pounds a year)
- coulter — a blade or sharp-edged disc attached to a plough so that it cuts through the soil vertically in advance of the ploughshare
- counter — In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
- country — A country is one of the political units which the world is divided into, covering a particular area of land.
- courant — a courante
- courbet — Gustave (ɡystav). 1819–77, French painter, a leader of the realist movement; noted for his depiction of contemporary life
- courted — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- courter — a person who courts; a suitor
- courtly — You use courtly to describe someone whose behaviour is very polite, often in a rather old-fashioned way.
- couther — known or acquainted with.
- couture — Couture is the designing and making of expensive fashionable clothes, or the clothes themselves.
- coverts — concealed; secret; disguised.
- coveter — to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
- cowrite — to write (something) in collaboration with another writer
- cowrote — Simple past tense and past participle of cowrite.
- cowtree — a South American moraceous tree, Brosimum galactodendron, producing latex used as a substitute for milk
- cratons — Plural form of craton.
- creator — The creator of something is the person who made it or invented it.
- creston — a ridge on a hill that curves downwards at the ends
- cretons — a spread of shredded pork cooked with onions in pork fat
- croatia — a republic in SE Europe: settled by Croats in the 7th century; belonged successively to Hungary, Turkey, and Austria; formed part of Yugoslavia (1918–91); became independent in 1991 but was invaded by Serbia and fighting continued until 1995; involved in the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1991–95); joined the European Union in 2013. Language: Croatian. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: kuna. Capital: Zagreb. Pop: 4 475 611 (2013 est). Area: 55 322 sq km (21 359 sq miles)
- crochet — Crochet is a way of making cloth out of cotton or wool by using a needle with a small hook at the end.
- crocket — a carved ornament in the form of a curled leaf or cusp, used in Gothic architecture
- crofter — In Scotland, a crofter is a person who lives on a croft or small farm.
- crontab — (computing, Unix) A table of commands to be executed periodically.
- cropout — A horse that has spotted coloration but whose sire and dam were both solid-coloured.
- croquet — Croquet is a game played on grass in which the players use long wooden sticks called mallets to hit balls through metal arches.
- crotone — a town in S Italy, on the coast of Calabria: founded in about 700 bc by the Achaeans; chemical works and zinc-smelting. Pop: 60 010 (2001)
- crotons — Plural form of croton.
- crottin — a type of French goat cheese.
- crouton — Croutons are small pieces of toasted or fried bread that are added to soup just before you eat it.
- crownet — a coronet.
- cry out — If you cry out, you call out loudly because you are frightened, unhappy, or in pain.
- crypto- — Crypto- is added to adjectives and nouns to form other adjectives and nouns which refer to people who have hidden beliefs and principles.
- crypton — a hypothetical particle important in string theory and explanations of dark matter
- cryptos — Plural form of crypto.
- curator — A curator is someone who is in charge of the objects or works of art in a museum or art gallery.
- cutover — an area cleared of timber
- cutwork — openwork embroidery in which the pattern is cut away from the background
- cutworm — the caterpillar of various noctuid moths, esp those of the genus Argrotis, which is a pest of young crop plants in North America
- cypriot — Cypriot means belonging or relating to Cyprus, or to its people or culture.