12-letter words containing s, t, a, r, c
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- copperplates — Plural form of copperplate.
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- corporations — Plural form of corporation.
- corporealist — a materialist
- correlations — Plural form of correlation.
- correlatives — Plural form of correlative.
- corroborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corroborate.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
- cotoneasters — Plural form of cotoneaster.
- cotortfeasor — (legal) A joint tortfeasor.
- cotton grass — any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum, whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- counterpanes — Plural form of counterpane.
- counterparts — a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- counterscarp — the outer side of the ditch of a fort
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- counterstain — to apply two or more stains in sequence to (a specimen to be examined), each of which colours a different tissue
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- counterstate — across state; traversing the state
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- country seat — A country seat is a large house with land in the country which is owned by someone who also owns a house in a town.
- courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- 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.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- crash helmet — A crash helmet is a helmet that motorcyclists wear in order to protect their heads if they have an accident.
- crassamentum — a blood clot
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- creationists — Plural form of creationist.
- creativeness — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativities — the state or quality of being creative.
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2
- criticalness — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- criticisable — Alternative form of criticizable.
- cross-action — an action brought within the same lawsuit by one defendant against another defendant or against the plaintiff.