12-letter words containing c, l, y, t
- cetylic acid — palmitic acid.
- chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
- charity sale — a sale in aid of charity
- chartophylax — an official who serves chiefly as the chancellor and archivist of a diocese.
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chlorophytes — Plural form of chlorophyte.
- chlorophytum — any plant of the genus Chlorophytum, esp C. elatum variegatum, grown as a pot plant for its long narrow leaves with a light central stripe, and characterized by the production of offsets at the end of long scapes: family Liliaceae
- cholinolytic — capable of blocking the action of acetylcholine and related compounds.
- chromatology — chromatics.
- circuitously — roundabout; not direct: a circuitous route; a circuitous argument.
- city college — an educational institution providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education in the US and Canada
- city council — a municipal body having legislative and administrative powers, such as passing ordinances and appropriating funds.
- city dweller — a resident or inhabitant of a city
- 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.
- clairvoyants — Plural form of clairvoyant.
- claptrappery — the art of eliciting applause
- class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born
- classicality — (uncountable) The condition of being classical.
- clatteringly — With a clattering sound.
- clayton fern — a tall fern, Osmunda claytoniana, of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having an interruption of growth in the center of some fronds.
- cleanability — the ability to be cleaned
- clickability — (computing) The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked.
- climatically — of or relating to climate.
- clitorectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure to remove all or part of the clitoris; female circumcision.
- clubbability — The quality of being clubbable.
- clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- cogitatively — In a cogitative manner.
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- coincidently — in a coincident manner
- collaterally — In collateral relation; not lineally.
- collectively — formed by collection.
- collectivity — the quality or state of being collective
- collegiality — the sharing of authority among colleagues
- collegiately — in a collegiate way
- collinearity — lying in the same straight line.
- comfortingly — In a comforting manner.
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- complacently — 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.
- compulsatory — compulsory
- compulsivity — compulsiveness
- conceptually — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
- conciliatory — When you are conciliatory in your actions or behaviour, you show that you are willing to end a disagreement with someone.
- concordantly — agreeing; harmonious.
- concurrently — occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side: concurrent attacks by land, sea, and air.
- conductively — In a conductive manner.
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- congeniality — agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.
- congenitally — of or relating to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, especially the uterine environment.
- connaturally — In a connatural manner.