12-letter words containing e, c, n
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- 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 chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
- 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 manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- 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
- civic-minded — having, showing, or actively carrying out one's concern for the condition and affairs of one's community; public-spirited
- 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.
- civilianized — Simple past tense and past participle of civilianize.
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- 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.
- clairvoyance — the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
- clannishness — of, relating to, or characteristic of a clan.
- clap eyes on — to catch sight of
- clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clatteringly — With a clattering sound.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
- 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.
- clean a room — If you clean a room, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust.
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- clean eating — the practice of following a diet that contains only natural foods, and is low in sugar, salt, and fat
- clean energy — energy, as electricity or nuclear power, that does not pollute the atmosphere when used, as opposed to coal and oil, that do.
- clean-handed — free from wrongdoing; guiltless.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- clean-living — having a wholesome lifestyle
- clean-shaven — If a man is clean-shaven, he does not have a beard or a moustache.
- cleanability — the ability to be cleaned
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- clement viii — (Ippolito Aldobrandini) 1536–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1592–1605.
- clement xiii — (Carlo della Torre Rezzonico) 1693–1769, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1758–69.
- cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
- clergyperson — a member of the clergy
- clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
- 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.
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- clinozoisite — a monoclinic mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, a variety of epidote, dimorphous with zoisite.
- cliquishness — The state of being cliquish.
- cloddishness — The quality of being cloddish.
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- close season — In football and some other sports, the close season is the period of the year when the sport is not played professionally.
- close-shaven — (of hair) cut very short
- 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