12-letter words containing c, l, a, s, e, r
- 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
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- 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.
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- cavalierness — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- 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.
- 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
- chanterelles — Plural form of chanterelle.
- chanticleers — Plural form of chanticleer.
- charity sale — a sale in aid of charity
- charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- charles epee — Charles Michel, Abbé de l', 1712–89, French priest and teacher of the deaf: pioneer in the development of sign language.
- charles viii — 1470–98, king of France 1483–98 (son of Louis XI).
- charles' law — the principle that all gases expand equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant pressure: also that the pressures of all gases increase equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant volume. The law is now known to be only true for ideal gases
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
- chartularies — Plural form of chartulary.
- cheerleaders — Plural form of cheerleader.
- chelicerates — Plural form of chelicerate.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chocolatiers — Plural form of chocolatier.
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- circularised — Simple past tense and past participle of circularise.
- circularises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circularise.
- circularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circularize.
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clavieristic — relating to a clavier
- clear as mud — not at all clear
- clearsighted — seeing clearly