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

  • 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.
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
  • canton river — Zhu Jiang.
  • caravan site — A caravan site is an area of land where people can stay in a caravan on holiday, or where people live in caravans.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
  • card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
  • cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
  • carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • carry a tune — to be able to sing in tune
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
  • categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
  • cater-cousin — a close friend
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • catherine ii — known as Catherine the Great. 1729–96, empress of Russia (1762–96), during whose reign Russia extended her boundaries at the expense of Turkey, Sweden, and Poland: she was a patron of literature and the arts
  • 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.
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
  • 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
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