The word "counterclockwise" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about turning or spinning in a direction opposite to the direction that most clocks turn. For example, "I turned the doorknob counterclockwise and opened the door."
He is in favour of more growth, of a more efficient government and, no doubt, of water draining from Japanese baths counterclockwise.
In the Southern Hemisphere, rotation is counterclockwise.
The planet moves counterclockwise on its epicycle.
The general movement of water in the sea is counterclockwise.
Looking down on the system from a vantage point above Earth's North Pole, an observer would find that all these orbital motions are in a counterclockwise direction.
Each arm of the semaphore could assume seven angular positions 45° apart, and the horizontal beam could tilt 45° clockwise or counterclockwise.
Around a low-pressure centre, the pressure-gradient force directed inward balances the Coriolis force and the centrifugal force, both directed outward; because the Coriolis force acts to the wind's right in the Northern Hemisphere and to its left in the Southern, the wind blows counterclockwise along the curved isobars in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
This current interacts with the magnetic flux to produce a counterclockwise torque, which in turn accelerates the rotor.
The direction of the dipole moment, which may be represented mathematically as a vector, is perpendicularly away from the side of the surface enclosed by the counterclockwise path of positive charge flow.
Following the coasts of the Japanese islands, some of the current's waters continue north to flow into the Pacific and the Sea of Okhotsk at Sakhalin Island, while the remainder swirls counterclockwise to flow south along the Asian mainland.
Surface movements of the waters change direction with the season, the northeast monsoon giving them a clockwise circulation, the southeast monsoon a counterclockwise circulation.
