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

  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
  • stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
  • stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
  • stern chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
  • stern-chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
  • sternocostal — of, relating to, or situated between the sternum and ribs.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • student card — a card verifying somebody's identity as a university student and entitling them to services, discounts, etc
  • subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • tenure-track — of or relating to a college- or university-teaching job that can lead to a tenured position.
  • tercentenary — commemoration of 300 years
  • tetracycline — an antibiotic, C 22 H 24 H 2 O 8 , derived from chlortetracycline, used in medicine to treat a broad variety of infections.
  • tetravalence — the condition of having a valency of four
  • the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • the-american — a novel (1877) by Henry James.
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.
  • thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
  • tinea cruris — jock itch.
  • torchon lace — a bobbin-made linen or cotton lace with loosely twisted threads in simple, open patterns.
  • torrefaction — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
  • tracing tape — (on a building site) one of several lines stretched between batter boards to outline the foundations.
  • tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
  • tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
  • traffic cone — conical road markers
  • tragicalness — the quality or state of being tragic
  • trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
  • transcendent — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
  • transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
  • transcension — transcendence.
  • transcurrent — running or extending across or transversely.
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