12-letter words containing a, t, e
- chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
- chew the fat — If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
- chew the rag — to converse idly; chat
- chi particle — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chiantishire — a nickname for Tuscany
- chichen itza — a village in Yucatán state in Mexico: site of important Mayan ruins
- chieftainess — a female chieftain
- china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
- chloroacetic — an acid made by chlorinating acetic acid
- chloroethane — ethyl chloride.
- chocolatiers — Plural form of chocolatier.
- choirmasters — Plural form of choirmaster.
- chorusmaster — the conductor of a choir
- chrematistic — of, denoting, or relating to money-making
- chrestomathy — a collection of literary passages, used in the study of language
- christianise — to make Christian.
- christianite — (mineral) alternative name of phillipsite.
- christianize — to make Christian or convert to Christianity
- chromonemata — a chromosome thread that is relatively uncoiled at early prophase but assumes a spiral form at metaphase.
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
- cinematizing — Present participle of cinematize.
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumrotate — to turn like a wheel; rotate
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
- citlaltepetl — a volcano in SE Mexico, in central Veracruz state: the highest peak in the country. Height: 5636 m (18 492 ft), though this is disputed between different sources
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- city academy — (in England and Wales) a type of secondary school funded partly by the government and partly by private finance
- city fathers — You can refer to the members of a city council or city's government as the city fathers.
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- claptrappery — the art of eliciting applause
- clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
- class object — (programming) In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
- class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born
- clatteringly — With a clattering sound.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.