12-letter words containing r, e, n, t, o
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- catty-corner — Something that is catty-corner or kitty-corner from another thing is placed or arranged diagonally from it.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- centre court — the main court of a tennis complex, esp at Wimbledon
- centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
- centrosphere — the portion of the centrosome surrounding the centriole; center of an aster
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- cerebrotonic — relating to or resembling a personality type characterized by shyness, introspection, and emotional restraint, and often associated with an ectomorphic physique
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- cherrystones — Plural form of cherrystone.
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chloroethane — ethyl chloride.
- chloroethene — vinyl chloride.
- christophene — chayote.
- chromocenter — karyosome (def 1).
- chromonemata — a chromosome thread that is relatively uncoiled at early prophase but assumes a spiral form at metaphase.
- chronometers — Plural form of chronometer.
- chronometric — of a chronometer or chronometry
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- co-recipient — one of two or more recipients, as of an award.
- coacervation — a reversible, emulsoid stage existing between the sol and gel formations, in which the addition of a third substance causes the separation of the sol into two immiscible liquid phases: an essential stage in the formation of proteins, antibodies, etc.
- coast ranges — series of mountain ranges along the W coast of North America, extending from Alas. to Baja California: highest peak, Mt. Logan
- coat protein — any protein that is a constituent of the capsid of a virus.
- cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
- coconut tree — palm tree: bears coconuts
- coelenterata — the phylum comprising the coelenterates.
- coelenterate — any invertebrate of the phylum Cnidaria (formerly Coelenterata), having a saclike body with a single opening (mouth), which occurs in polyp and medusa forms. Coelenterates include the hydra, jellyfishes, sea anemones, and corals
- cogeneration — the process of generating electricity and steam from the same power plant
- cogenerators — Plural form of cogenerator.
- coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
- collinearity — lying in the same straight line.