12-letter words containing r, e, c, o, n
- chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
- change color — to become pale
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
- changearound — the act of changing to a different position
- channel iron — a rolled-steel bar with a U-shaped cross section
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
- cheesemonger — a person dealing in cheese, butter, etc
- chemosensory — sensitive to chemical stimuli, as the sensory nerve endings that mediate taste and smell.
- cherrystones — Plural form of cherrystone.
- chicharrones — A Hispanic dish; made of fried pork rinds.
- chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
- chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
- 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 tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
- chloroethane — ethyl chloride.
- chloroethene — vinyl chloride.
- chlorophenol — any of three isomers having the formula C 6 H 5 ClO, derived from chlorine and phenol, used chiefly as intermediates in the manufacture of dyes.
- chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
- choir-screen — a partition or a screen in a church that acts as a divide between the choir and the aisles
- cholericness — The state or quality of being choleric.
- chondriosome — mitochondrion
- chondrophore — a medusoid hydrozoan that resembles a jellyfish
- chord change — a movement from one chord to another
- chordophones — Plural form of chordophone.
- christophene — chayote.
- chrome green — any green pigment made by mixing lead chromate with Prussian blue
- chromocenter — karyosome (def 1).
- chromonemata — a chromosome thread that is relatively uncoiled at early prophase but assumes a spiral form at metaphase.
- chronologies — Plural form of chronology.
- chronologise — Alternative spelling of chronologize.
- chronologize — to arrange in an order determined by when events took place
- chronometers — Plural form of chronometer.
- chronometric — of a chronometer or chronometry
- chronoscopes — Plural form of chronoscope.
- chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- churchperson — A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
- cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
- cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
- circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
- clairvoyance — the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
- 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.
- clean a room — If you clean a room, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust.