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12-letter words containing c, a, s, e

  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
  • caenogenesis — the development of structures and organs in an embryo or larva that are adaptations to its way of life and are not retained in the adult form
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
  • cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • calabrasella — a card game for three persons that is played with a 40-card pack made by removing the eights, nines, and tens from a regular 52-card pack.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • call letters — Call letters are the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calycoideous — calycoid
  • camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
  • camel's hair — the hair of the camel
  • camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
  • cameraperson — a camera operator
  • camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
  • cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
  • canned goods — tinned food produce
  • cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
  • cannibalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cannibalize.
  • canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
  • canonicalise — (transitive, computing, UK) Alternative form of canonicalize.
  • canorousness — The quality of being musical.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • canvas shoes — soft shoes with a canvas upper
  • capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
  • capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
  • cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
  • cape jasmine — a widely cultivated gardenia shrub, Gardenia jasminoides
  • cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
  • cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
  • caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
  • capillaceous — having numerous filaments resembling hairs or threads
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