12-letter words containing our
- courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
- courtly love — a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady
- coxless four — a boat for four oarsman and no cox
- crash course — A crash course in a particular subject is a short course in which you are taught basic facts or skills, for example before you start a new job.
- cross colour — distortion in a colour television receiver in which high-frequency luminance detail is interpreted as colour information and reproduced as flashes of spurious colour
- crowdsourced — Obtained by crowdsourcing.
- curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- do honour to — to pay homage to
- do your part — contribute
- earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
- flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluorouracil — a pyrimidine analog, C 4 H 3 FN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- forty-fourth — next after the forty-third; being the ordinal number for 44.
- four hundred — the exclusive social set of a city or area.
- four old cat — three old cat played with four batters.
- four-by-four — a four-wheeled automotive vehicle having four-wheel drive.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- four-engined — (of an aircraft) having four engines
- four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
- four-o'clock — a common garden plant, Mirabilis jalapa, of the four-o'clock family, having tubular red, white, yellow, or variegated flowers that open late in the afternoon.
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
- four-wheeler — a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
- fourth world — the world's most poverty-stricken nations, especially in Africa and Asia, marked by very low GNP per capita and great dependence upon foreign economic aid.
- fourth-class — of, relating to, or designated as a class next below third, as for mailing, shipping, etc.