12-Letter Words Containing: C,O,S,T,A,T,E

• orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf

• an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker

• a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language

• pledge without delivery or title of possession

• to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

• a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does

• clear out the chest and lungs

• discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• anticipating with confidence of fulfillment

• the feeling that something is about to happen

• the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

• a medicine promoting expectoration

• a surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air; performed when the pharynx is obstructed by edema or cancer or other causes

• surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear