12-letter words containing r, o, s
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- court tennis — a variety of tennis played indoors on a specially constructed court having high cement walls off which the ball may be played, points being made chiefly by stroking the ball into any of three openings in the walls of the court. Compare penthouse (def 7), tambour (def 7), winning opening.
- courtesy bus — a free bus
- courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
- couscoussier — A double-chambered steamer used to prepare couscous.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- coxless four — a boat for four oarsman and no cox
- cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- craniosacral — as in craniosacral therapy, an alternative therapy involving gentle manipulation of the bones and membranes of the skull, in order to treat a wide range of physical and psychological disorders
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- crash course — A crash course in a particular subject is a short course in which you are taught basic facts or skills, for example before you start a new job.
- creationists — Plural form of creationist.
- credit score — A borrower's credit score is a number calculated by a credit bureau to express how likely they are to be able to pay back their loans.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- crepusculous — Alternative form of crepuscular.
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- crisscrossed — crossed over each other
- crisscrosses — Plural form of crisscross.
- cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross colour — distortion in a colour television receiver in which high-frequency luminance detail is interpreted as colour information and reproduced as flashes of spurious colour
- cross cousin — a cousin who is the child of one's father's sister or one's mother's brother
- cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
- cross street — a street running at right angles to a major thoroughfare
- cross stroke — the horizontal line through the vertical of a t or f.
- cross swords — to argue or fight
- cross volley — (in tennis) a volley across the court
- cross-action — an action brought within the same lawsuit by one defendant against another defendant or against the plaintiff.
- cross-bearer — a person who carries or holds a cross, especially in a religious procession.
- cross-bedded — having irregular laminations, as strata of sandstone, inclining in various directions not coincident with the general stratification.
- cross-border — Cross-border trade occurs between companies in different countries.
- cross-cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's brother or one's father's sister.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame