12-letter words containing w, r
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- counter word — any word freely used as a general term of approval or disapproval without reference to its more exact meaning, as nice, terrible, lousy, terrific
- counter-view — an opposing or contrasting opinion.
- counter-word — a word, often of short-lived popularity, widely used as an almost meaningless, automatic response.
- counterpower — an opposing power
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
- counterworld — an alternative world opposite to the virtual world
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- 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.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crawler lane — a lane on an uphill section of a motorway reserved for slow vehicles
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- crime writer — a writer who writes detective fiction
- criminal law — the body of law dealing with the constitution of offences and the punishment of offenders
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- cross swords — to argue or fight
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- crowdsourced — Obtained by crowdsourcing.
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- crown colony — a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown
- crown cutter — a hollow, thin-walled cylinder having teeth formed radially on the end and used for cutting round holes out of thin, flat stock.
- 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
- crown octavo — a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 8vo.
- crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- crown quarto — a size of book, about 7½ × 10 inches (19 × 25 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 4to.
- crowned head — a monarch
- crumble away — disintegrate
- 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.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- curliewurlie — an extremely curled or twisted object or ornament
- curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
- curtain wall — a non-load-bearing external wall attached to a framed structure, often one that is prefabricated
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- dawn redwood — a deciduous conifer, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to China but planted in other regions as an ornamental tree: family Taxodiaceae. Until the 1940s it was known only as a fossil