12-letter words containing r, o, s
- cross-legged — If someone is sitting cross-legged, they are sitting on the floor with their legs bent so that their knees point outwards.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- cross-staves — an instrument for measuring the angle of elevation of heavenly bodies, consisting of a calibrated staff with another shorter staff perpendicular to and sliding on it.
- cross-stitch — Cross-stitch is a type of decorative sewing where one stitch crosses another.
- cross-string — overstring.
- crossability — the quality of being crossable
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- crossbencher — A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party.
- crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.
- crosscurrent — a current in a river or sea flowing across another current
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
- crosscutting — a transverse cut or course.
- crossdresser — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
- crossed eyes — strabismus, especially the form in which one or both eyes turn inward.
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
- crowdsourced — Obtained by crowdsourcing.
- 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
- crucifixions — Plural form of crucifixion.
- 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
- cryptococcus — any fungus of the genus Cryptococcus, some of which cause disease in animals and humans
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- 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.
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- cumulocirrus — a cloud that shares charracteristics of cumulus and cirrus clouds
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- current cost — The current cost of assets is their current value, or what it would cost to replace them at this time.
- curvicostate — having curved ribs