12-letter words containing a, t, e
- cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
- cash receipt — A cash receipt is a proof of purchase issued when the buyer has paid in cash.
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- caste system — the division of Hindu society into four major hereditary classes
- castellation — Architecture. built like a castle, especially with turrets and battlements.
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- castile soap — a hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
- casting vote — When a committee has given an equal number of votes for and against a proposal, the chairperson can give a casting vote. This vote decides whether or not the proposal will be passed.
- cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
- catachrestic — Constituting or related to catachresis.
- catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
- cataphoreses — Plural form of cataphoresis.
- cataphoresis — electrophoresis
- cataphracted — covered with an armor of horny or bony plates or scales.
- catastrophes — Plural form of catastrophe.
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
- catch phrase — a phrase that attracts or is meant to attract attention.
- catch-phrase — A catch-phrase is a sentence or phrase which becomes popular or well-known, often because it is frequently used by a famous person.
- catching pen — a pen adjacent to a shearer's stand containing the sheep ready for shearing
- catchphrases — Plural form of catchphrase.
- catechetical — of or relating to teaching by question and answer
- catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- categoricity — The quality of being categorical.
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- caterpillars — Plural form of caterpillar.
- caterpillers — Archaic spelling of caterpillarst; Plural form of caterpiller.
- 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
- catheterized — Simple past tense and past participle of catheterize.
- catheterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catheterize.
- cathetometer — an instrument measuring minute height differences
- cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
- cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
- cattle class — a jocular name for the economy-class section of an airliner, in which passengers have little space to move
- cattle drive — the process of moving cattle across country, often carried out by cowboys on horseback
- cattle egret — a small, white egret (Bubulcus ibis), an Old World bird that has expanded its range to North and South America: it often feeds on insects attracted to cattle and other grazing animals
- cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
- cattle truck — a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock
- cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
- 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.
- caustic lime — lime1 (def 1).
- cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.