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12-letter words containing e, c, n

  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
  • closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact
  • closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
  • closing time — Closing time is the time when something such as a shop, library, or pub closes and people have to leave.
  • clothes-line — a strong, narrow rope, cord, wire, etc., usually stretched between two poles, posts, or buildings, on which clean laundry is hung to dry.
  • clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
  • clotheslines — Plural form of clothesline.
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
  • clownishness — The state of being clownish.
  • cluelessness — The state of being clueless.
  • cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
  • clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
  • co-dependent — A co-dependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
  • co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
  • co-opetition — cooperation between competitors in business, esp in the computer industry
  • co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
  • co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
  • co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
  • co-recipient — one of two or more recipients, as of an award.
  • coacervation — a reversible, emulsoid stage existing between the sol and gel formations, in which the addition of a third substance causes the separation of the sol into two immiscible liquid phases: an essential stage in the formation of proteins, antibodies, etc.
  • coarse grain — granularity
  • coast ranges — series of mountain ranges along the W coast of North America, extending from Alas. to Baja California: highest peak, Mt. Logan
  • coat protein — any protein that is a constituent of the capsid of a virus.
  • cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
  • cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
  • cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
  • cobblestones — Plural form of cobblestone.
  • cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
  • cocarcinogen — a substance that can promote cancer when acting with other substances, but which does not promote cancer by itself
  • cockeyedness — the condition of being cockeyed
  • cocksureness — The state or condition of being cocksure.
  • coconut tree — palm tree: bears coconuts
  • code grinder — (jargon, abuse)   A suit-wearing minion of the sort hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies in the Real World to implement payroll packages in RPG and other such unspeakable horrors. In its native habitat, the code grinder often removes the suit jacket to reveal an underplumage consisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie. In times of dire stress, the sleeves (if long) may be rolled up and the tie loosened about half an inch. It seldom helps. The code grinder's milieu is about as far from hackerdom as one can get and still touch a computer; the term connotes pity. Used of or to a hacker, this term is a really serious slur on the person's creative ability; it connotes a design style characterised by primitive technique, rule-boundedness, brute force and utter lack of imagination. Compare card walloper. Contrast real programmer.
  • code segment — (memory)   (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
  • code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
  • codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
  • codependence — (uncountable) The state of being co-dependent.
  • codependency — of or relating to a relationship in which one person is physically or psychologically addicted, as to alcohol or gambling, and the other person is psychologically dependent on the first in an unhealthy way.
  • coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
  • coefficients — Plural form of coefficient.
  • coelacanthic — of or relating to the coelacanth
  • coelenterata — the phylum comprising the coelenterates.
  • coelenterate — any invertebrate of the phylum Cnidaria (formerly Coelenterata), having a saclike body with a single opening (mouth), which occurs in polyp and medusa forms. Coelenterates include the hydra, jellyfishes, sea anemones, and corals
  • coenesthesia — general awareness of one's own body
  • coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
  • coerciveness — serving or tending to coerce.
  • coffee beans — the beanlike seeds of the coffee tree, which are roasted and ground to make coffee
  • coffee spoon — a small spoon (smaller than a teaspoon) for stirring coffee
  • cogeneration — the process of generating electricity and steam from the same power plant
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