12-letter words containing t, r, a
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- court action — a legal action
- court of law — When you refer to a court of law, you are referring to a legal court, especially when talking about the evidence that might be given in a trial.
- courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
- cradle vault — barrel vault.
- craft centre — a large shop that sells craftwork
- 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.
- craniometric — the science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- crape myrtle — an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
- 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
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- 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.
- creaturehood — the state of being a creature
- credentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- 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.
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- crenellation — to furnish with crenels or battlements.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- creolization — (of a pidgin language) the process of becoming a creole
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- 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.
- criticizable — to censure or find fault with.
- crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- 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.
- crossability — the quality of being crossable
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.