13-letter words containing r, i, o, t
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterpoints — Plural form of counterpoint.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- counterpoises — Plural form of counterpoise.
- counterpoison — A poison used against another poison, serving as an antidote.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- counterstains — Plural form of counterstain.
- counterstrike — a retaliatory strike
- countertactic — an opposing tactic
- counterthesis — A thesis that rebuts another.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
- counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
- counting room — counting house.
- country music — a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern US
- county prison — the prison of a particular county
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- court martial — A court martial is a trial in a military court of a member of the armed forces who is charged with breaking a military law.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- court-martial — a court consisting of military or naval personnel appointed by a commander to try charges of offenses by soldiers, sailors, etc., against military or naval law.
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
- crenellations — the battlements on a building
- criminologist — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- crop rotation — the system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility
- cross-cutting — linking traditionally separate or independent parties or interests
- cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
- cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
- cross-section — If you refer to a cross-section of particular things or people, you mean a group of them that you think is typical or representative of all of them.
- cross-sterile — incapable of reproducing due to hybridization.
- cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
- cross-utilize — to make use of in an additional or different way.
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- crossectional — Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
- crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- crotchetiness — The state or quality of being crotchety.
- crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
- cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
- cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
- cryptoclastic — (of minerals and rocks) composed of microscopic fragments
- cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- cryptographic — Relating to cryptography.
- cryptological — cryptography.
- cryptoxanthin — a carotenoid pigment, C40H56O, in butter, eggs, and various plants, that can be converted into vitamin A in the body
- crystalloidal — Relating to a crystalloid.
- cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.