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12-letter words containing c, a, s, t, o

  • to lose face — If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
  • to sb's face — If you say something to someone's face, you say it openly in their presence.
  • tomato aspic — aspic1 (def 2).
  • tomato sauce — ketchup
  • tonic sol-fa — a system of singing characterized by emphasis upon tonality or key relationship, in which tones are indicated by the initial letters of the syllables of the sol-fa system rather than by conventional staff notation.
  • toxocariasis — the infection of humans with the larvae of a genus of roundworms, Toxocara, of dogs and cats. It can cause swelling of the liver and, sometimes, damage to the eyes
  • trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
  • tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
  • tracheostomy — the construction of an artificial opening through the neck into the trachea, usually for the relief of difficulty in breathing.
  • trachomatous — a chronic, contagious infection of the conjunctiva and cornea, characterized by the formation of granulations and scarring and caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
  • trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
  • 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
  • tralaticious — transferred or passed down
  • transactions — the published records of the proceedings of a society, conference, etc
  • transcension — transcendence.
  • transduction — the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by means of a virus.
  • transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
  • transoceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
  • transpicuous — transparent.
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • tronc master — a person who distributes pooled tips and service charges to waiters, waitresses, hotel workers etc.
  • tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • troposcatter — the scattering or extended propagation of radio signals using the local irregularities in the Earth's troposphere
  • tschaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
  • turbinacious — with a peaty aroma or flavour
  • turbo pascal — (language, product)   Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
  • unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
  • unassociated — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
  • unconsecrate — profane or base
  • unconstraint — lack of constraint: Their home has a feeling of unconstraint and warm hospitableness.
  • unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
  • undiscordant — not discordant; not disagreeing or disagreeable
  • unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • unhistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • unsanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
  • varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
  • vasoactivity — activity that affects the diameter of blood vessels
  • vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
  • vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
  • victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
  • viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
  • viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
  • volstead act — an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages.
  • wainscotings — Plural form of wainscoting.
  • wainscotting — paneling or woodwork with which rooms, hallways, etc., are wainscoted.
  • waistcoateer — a prostitute
  • waistcoating — a fabric for making waistcoats.
  • water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
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