12-letter words containing a, n, i, c, u
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- caricaturing — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
- cash-in-lieu — Cash-in-lieu is payment of cash instead of stock when a stock splits or changes and the shareholder only owns a partial share.
- catamountain — any of several wildcats, esp. the leopard or the European wildcat
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- causationism — the theory of universal causation
- causationist — a person who believes in the theory of universal causation
- cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- centuplicate — to increase 100 times
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- chance music — aleatory music.
- changchiakou — Zhangjiakou
- chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
- chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
- chauvinistic — If you describe someone as chauvinistic, you believe that they think their own country is more important and morally better than any other.
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinhuangtao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- churchianity — loyalty to the church rather than Christianity
- churchillian — relating to, typical of or reminiscent of Winston Churchill
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
- cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- colliquation — liquefaction
- colluctation — a struggle or conflict
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.