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12-letter words containing a, c, e, y

  • compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
  • complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
  • concealingly — in a concealing manner
  • conceptually — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
  • condemnatory — Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.
  • coney island — an island off the S shore of Long Island, New York: site of a large amusement park
  • congeniality — agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.
  • congenitally — of or relating to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, especially the uterine environment.
  • consecratory — That consecrates.
  • consensually — formed or existing merely by consent: a consensual transaction.
  • conservatory — A conservatory is a room with glass walls and a glass roof, which is attached to a house. People often grow plants in a conservatory.
  • considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
  • consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
  • contemporary — Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
  • contextually — of, relating to, or depending on the context.
  • contractedly — in a shortened manner
  • conveyancing — Conveyancing is the process of transferring the legal ownership of property.
  • coordinately — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • copy machine — A copy machine is the same as a copier.
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
  • corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
  • cosmetically — a powder, lotion, lipstick, rouge, or other preparation for beautifying the face, skin, hair, nails, etc.
  • cotemporally — At the same time.
  • cotyledonary — the primary or rudimentary leaf of the embryo of seed plants.
  • counterparty — a person who is a party to a contract
  • counterrally — an opposing rally
  • country lane — a narrow country road, often bordered by hedges
  • country seat — A country seat is a large house with land in the country which is owned by someone who also owns a house in a town.
  • county agent — a government employee who gives advice on agriculture in a rural area
  • courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
  • courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
  • coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
  • coyote state — South Dakota (used as a nickname).
  • crackerberry — bunchberry.
  • crape myrtle — an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cream sherry — a full-bodied sweet sherry
  • crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
  • crumble away — disintegrate
  • crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
  • cryptanalyze — to study (a cryptogram) for the purpose of discovering the clear meaning; break (a code, cipher, etc.).
  • cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
  • cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
  • crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
  • crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
  • crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
  • crystallites — Plural form of crystallite.
  • crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
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