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

  • boniface iii — pope a.d. 607.
  • boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • brain-picker — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
  • braunschweig — Brunswick
  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
  • buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
  • buck private — a common soldier
  • bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
  • c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
  • c'est la vie — that's life
  • cabinet wine — cabinet (def 10).
  • cabinet-wine — a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
  • cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
  • cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • cacodaemonic — Daemonic.
  • cadmium cell — a photocell with a cadmium electrode that is especially sensitive to ultraviolet radiation
  • caenogenesis — the development of structures and organs in an embryo or larva that are adaptations to its way of life and are not retained in the adult form
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • cafe au lait — coffee with milk
  • cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
  • cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
  • cage cricket — a form of cricket played in an enclosed space, in which six players compete as individuals
  • calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
  • caliper rule — a graduated rule with one sliding jaw and one that is stationary
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • calvin cycle — a series of reactions, occurring during photosynthesis, in which glucose is synthesized from carbon dioxide
  • calycoideous — calycoid
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