12-letter words containing r, o, c
- corequisites — Plural form of corequisite.
- coresearcher — a joint researcher
- corespondent — a person charged with having committed adultery with the wife or husband from whom a divorce is being sought
- cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- corn earworm — the larva of the noctuid moth Heliothis armigera, which feeds on maize and many other crop plants
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
- corncob pipe — a pipe made from a dried corncob
- corner brook — a city in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the W part of the island.
- corner chair — a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.
- corner house — a house situated on the corner of two streets
- corner store — A corner store is the same as a corner shop.
- corner table — a table of the 18th century having a triangular top with a triangular drop leaf of the same size.
- cornerstones — Plural form of cornerstone.
- cornhuskings — Plural form of cornhusking.
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- corollaceous — of, relating to, resembling, or having a corolla
- coronagraphs — Plural form of coronagraph.
- coronal hole — a part of the solar corona that appears dark on optical and x-ray images and is characterized by low temperature and low density.
- corotational — (astronomy) That rotates in conjunction with another body.
- corporations — Plural form of corporation.
- corporealism — materialism
- corporealist — a materialist
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- corporealize — to make corporeal
- corpus juris — a body of law, esp the laws of a nation or state
- correctional — Correctional means related to prisons.
- correctioner — a person who administers correction
- correctitude — the quality of correctness, esp conscious correctness in behaviour
- correctively — In a corrective manner; so as to correct something.
- corregidores — the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
- correlatable — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- correlations — Plural form of correlation.
- correlatives — Plural form of correlative.
- corresponded — to be in agreement or conformity (often followed by with or to): His actions do not correspond with his words.
- corrivalship — the position of a corrival
- corroborable — able to be corroborated
- corroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- corroborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corroborate.
- corroborator — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruptively — In a corruptive way.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- corset cover — an undergarment, as a camisole, worn over the upper part of a corset.
- corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cosponsoring — Present participle of cosponsor.
- cost control — the limiting of expenditure