12-letter words containing a, l, c, e, s, t
- time capsule — a receptacle containing documents or objects typical of the current period, placed in the earth or in a cornerstone for discovery in the future.
- to lose face — If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- tragicalness — the quality or state of being tragic
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- transilience — leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
- translucence — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- translucency — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triple-space — to type (copy) so as to leave two full spaces between lines
- triticalness — a trite quality or character
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- typicalities — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate
- unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
- unidealistic — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
- unit's place — unit (def 8).
- unspectacled — lacking spectacles
- unstanchable — unstoppable
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- volstead act — an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- yachtspeople — Plural form of yachtsperson.
- zinc sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.