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12-letter words containing c, i, t, e

  • 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.
  • cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
  • cinque terre — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
  • circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
  • circumcenter — the center of a circumscribed circle; that point where any two perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a polygon inscribed in the circle intersect.
  • circumcentre — the centre of a circumscribed circle
  • circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
  • circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
  • circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
  • circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
  • 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.
  • circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
  • 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.
  • citriculture — the cultivation of citrus fruits
  • citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
  • city academy — (in England and Wales) a type of secondary school funded partly by the government and partly by private finance
  • city chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
  • city college — an educational institution providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education in the US and Canada
  • city dweller — a resident or inhabitant of a city
  • city edition — an early edition of a daily newspaper on sale locally, usually a later edition than the one sent for out-of-town distribution.
  • 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
  • city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
  • civic center — In a city or town, a civic center is a building or buildings that contain local government offices and often recreational or cultural facilities for the public.
  • civic centre — the public buildings of a town, including recreational facilities and offices of local administration
  • civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
  • civvy street — People in the armed forces use civvy street to refer to life and work which is not connected with the armed forces.
  • 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.
  • clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
  • clatteringly — With a clattering sound.
  • clausthalite — a rare mineral, lead selenide, PbSe, occurring in grayish, granular crystals that have a metallic luster.
  • clavieristic — relating to a clavier
  • claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
  • clean eating — the practice of following a diet that contains only natural foods, and is low in sugar, salt, and fat
  • cleanability — the ability to be cleaned
  • clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
  • clearsighted — seeing clearly
  • cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
  • clement viii — (Ippolito Aldobrandini) 1536–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1592–1605.
  • clement xiii — (Carlo della Torre Rezzonico) 1693–1769, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1758–69.
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