12-letter words containing t, o, r, s
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2
- 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-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- 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-action — an action brought within the same lawsuit by one defendant against another defendant or against the plaintiff.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- 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.