12-letter words containing c, i, s, e
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- clerestories — Plural form of clerestory.
- clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- client state — A client state is a country which is controlled or influenced by another larger and more powerful state, or which depends on this state for support and protection.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- climacterics — Plural form of climacteric.
- clinozoisite — a monoclinic mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, a variety of epidote, dimorphous with zoisite.
- clipper ship — clipper (def 4).
- clipper-ship — a person or thing that clips or cuts.
- cliquishness — The state of being cliquish.
- cloddishness — The quality of being cloddish.
- cloisterless — a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
- close stitch — buttonhole stitch.
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
- closed chain — any structural arrangement, used in the models and formulas of molecules, consisting of a chain of atoms that forms a closed geometric figure; ring
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- closefitting — fitting tightly, esp. in such a way as to show the contours of the body
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- closing time — Closing time is the time when something such as a shop, library, or pub closes and people have to leave.
- clothes-line — a strong, narrow rope, cord, wire, etc., usually stretched between two poles, posts, or buildings, on which clean laundry is hung to dry.
- clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
- clotheslines — Plural form of clothesline.
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- coarse grain — granularity
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- codiscoverer — a fellow discoverer
- coefficients — Plural form of coefficient.
- coenesthesia — general awareness of one's own body
- coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
- coerciveness — serving or tending to coerce.
- cognoscitive — having the ability to know or discover: cognoscitive powers.
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- cohesionless — lacking cohesion
- cohesiveness — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- coincidences — Plural form of coincidence.
- coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
- collectibles — capable of being collected.