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12-letter words containing a, t, e

  • 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 linen — a fabric made from tough vegetable fibers, used for table linens, wall coverings, etc.
  • canton river — Zhu Jiang.
  • capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
  • capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
  • capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
  • cape matapan — a cape in S Greece, at the S central tip of the Peloponnese: the southern point of the mainland of Greece
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
  • 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.
  • carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • 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.
  • card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
  • cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
  • cardioactive — of or relating to a drug or other substance affecting the function of the heart.
  • carey street — (formerly) the street in which the London bankruptcy court was situated
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
  • 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
  • carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
  • carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
  • carpetbeater — A tool used in housecleaning that was in common use before the invention of the vacuum cleaner.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • carriwitchet — a conundrum, nonsensical question, or pun
  • carry a tune — to be able to sing in tune
  • carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
  • carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
  • cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
  • case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
  • cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
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