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

  • 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.
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
  • 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.
  • capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
  • cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
  • capillaceous — having numerous filaments resembling hairs or threads
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
  • carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
  • carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
  • carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
  • carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
  • cash-in-lieu — Cash-in-lieu is payment of cash instead of stock when a stock splits or changes and the shareholder only owns a partial share.
  • cashew apple — the soft, swollen, pear-shaped stalk of the cashew tree, to which a cashew nut is attached: used in preserves and wine.
  • cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
  • castellation — Architecture. built like a castle, especially with turrets and battlements.
  • caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
  • castile soap — a hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
  • cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
  • cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
  • caterpillars — Plural form of caterpillar.
  • caterpillers — Archaic spelling of caterpillarst; Plural form of caterpiller.
  • cattle class — a jocular name for the economy-class section of an airliner, in which passengers have little space to move
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
  • caustic lime — lime1 (def 1).
  • cavalierness — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
  • cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
  • cellarmaster — a person in charge of a wine cellar.
  • central asia — a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south. It includes the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and parts of Iran, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, and southwestern Siberia.
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
  • changelessly — In a changeless manner.
  • channel bass — red drum.
  • channel surf — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surf — to switch TV channels repeatedly using a remote-control device, usually so as to sample brief segments of programs
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