12-letter words containing c, e, n, o, t, a
- tonic accent — prominence given to a syllable in speaking, usually due to a change, especially a rise, in pitch.
- tonnage deck — the upper deck in a vessel with only two decks.
- torchon lace — a bobbin-made linen or cotton lace with loosely twisted threads in simple, open patterns.
- torrefaction — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- traffic cone — conical road markers
- 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
- transcension — transcendence.
- 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.
- trichopteran — trichopterous.
- trochanteric — belonging or relating to a trochanter
- tronc master — a person who distributes pooled tips and service charges to waiters, waitresses, hotel workers etc.
- tubocurarine — the principal active alkaloid of curare, C 38 H 44 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a muscle relaxant, especially as an adjunct to anesthesia.
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- turned comma — quotation mark.
- unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
- unactionable — furnishing ground for a lawsuit.
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- unassociated — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
- uncoagulated — Obsolete. coagulated.
- uncollegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- unconfutable — to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument.
- unconjugated — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- unconsecrate — profane or base
- uncontracted — drawn together; reduced in compass or size; made smaller; shrunken.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- uncorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- uncovenanted — not agreed to or promised by covenant.
- undemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unimportance — a lack of importance
- uninoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unnoticeable — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unnoticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
- unsanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.