12-letter words containing r, o, c
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- crowdsourced — Obtained by crowdsourcing.
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- crown colony — a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown
- crown cutter — a hollow, thin-walled cylinder having teeth formed radially on the end and used for cutting round holes out of thin, flat stock.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- crown jewels — the jewellery, including the regalia, used by a sovereign on a state occasion
- crown octavo — a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 8vo.
- crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- crown quarto — a size of book, about 7½ × 10 inches (19 × 25 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 4to.
- crowned head — a monarch
- crucifiction — Misspelling of crucifixion.
- crucifixions — Plural form of crucifixion.
- cruciformity — being in the shape of a cross; cross-shaped.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cryopreserve — to preserve (living tissue) at a very low temperature
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptobiosis — a temporary state in an organism in which metabolic activity is absent or undetectable
- cryptobiotic — Of or pertaining to cryptobiosis.
- cryptococcal — of, relating to, or caused by the Cryptococcus neoformans fungus
- cryptococcus — any fungus of the genus Cryptococcus, some of which cause disease in animals and humans
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
- cryptolocker — (security) The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cryptonymous — having a code name or secret name
- cryptorchids — Plural form of cryptorchid.
- cryptorchism — failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
- cryptosystem — a system for encoding and decoding secret messages.
- cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
- crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cub reporter — A cub reporter is a young newspaper journalist who is still being trained.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- cuir-bouilli — a type of leather hardened by soaking in wax, used for armour before the 14th century