12-letter words containing a, c, m, e
- chrematistic — of, denoting, or relating to money-making
- chrestomathy — a collection of literary passages, used in the study of language
- chromonemata — a chromosome thread that is relatively uncoiled at early prophase but assumes a spiral form at metaphase.
- chump change — Slang. a small or insignificant amount of money.
- cinema-going — regularly attending the cinema
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
- cinematizing — Present participle of cinematize.
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumrotate — to turn like a wheel; rotate
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- city academy — (in England and Wales) a type of secondary school funded partly by the government and partly by private finance
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- claim-jumper — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clamjamphrie — rubbish
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
- class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
- clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
- clean a room — If you clean a room, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- clear as mud — not at all clear
- cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
- cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- climacterics — Plural form of climacteric.
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
- closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
- clotrimazole — An antifungal medication used to treat humans and animals.
- clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- coffee cream — cream for use in coffee; light cream.
- coffee maker — Also, coffeemaker. an apparatus for brewing coffee; coffeepot.
- coffee-maker — a domestic appliance that makes coffee
- coffeemakers — Plural form of coffeemaker.
- coin machine — slot machine (def 2).
- collegialism — the theory that the church's highest authority is its collective membership
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- comber board — (in weaving) a wooden frame pierced with a series of small holes through which the harness cords are threaded, used to regulate the cords and determine the texture and width of a repeat in a fabric.