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12-letter words containing a, c, t, e, r

  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • catty-corner — Something that is catty-corner or kitty-corner from another thing is placed or arranged diagonally from it.
  • cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
  • celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
  • cellarmaster — a person in charge of a wine cellar.
  • census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
  • census tract — a standard area in certain large American cities used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for purposes of population enumeration.
  • centenarians — Plural form of centenarian.
  • center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • center stage — If something or someone takes center stage, they become very important or noticeable.
  • centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
  • centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
  • central asia — a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south. It includes the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and parts of Iran, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, and southwestern Siberia.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
  • central-fire — center-fire.
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
  • centre stage — If something or someone takes centre stage, they become very important or noticeable.
  • centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
  • centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
  • centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
  • centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
  • cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
  • cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
  • ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
  • cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
  • cerebropathy — A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed.
  • cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
  • cerium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the terbium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
  • cerivastatin — A synthetic statin formerly used to lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular disease, later withdrawn due to the risk of rhabdomyolysis.
  • ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
  • cerotic acid — white insoluble odourless wax
  • certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
  • certificates — Plural form of certificate.
  • chaetiferous — having bristles
  • chaff-cutter — a machine used to chop up hay and straw to make it into chaff for feeding to cattle
  • chain letter — A chain letter is a letter, often with a promise of money, that is sent to several people who send copies on to several more people. Chain letters are illegal in some countries.
  • chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
  • chalicothere — any of various very large extinct Tertiary horselike perissodactyl mammals that had clawed feet but otherwise resembled titanotheres
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
  • change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
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