12-letter words containing e, c, s, t
- chief priest — the highest ranking among a number of priests
- chieftainess — a female chieftain
- china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
- chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
- chlorophytes — Plural form of chlorophyte.
- chocolatiers — Plural form of chocolatier.
- choirmasters — Plural form of choirmaster.
- choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
- chorusmaster — the conductor of a choir
- chrematistic — of, denoting, or relating to money-making
- chrestomathy — a collection of literary passages, used in the study of language
- christenings — Plural form of christening.
- christianise — to make Christian.
- christianite — (mineral) alternative name of phillipsite.
- christianize — to make Christian or convert to Christianity
- christophene — chayote.
- chrome steel — any of various hard rust-resistant steels containing chromium
- chronometers — Plural form of chronometer.
- chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
- chrysophytes — Plural form of chrysophyte.
- cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- city fathers — You can refer to the members of a city council or city's government as the city fathers.
- 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.
- 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.
- civvy street — People in the armed forces use civvy street to refer to life and work which is not connected with the armed forces.
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
- class object — (programming) In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
- class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born
- clausthalite — a rare mineral, lead selenide, PbSe, occurring in grayish, granular crystals that have a metallic luster.
- clavieristic — relating to a clavier
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- clerestories — Plural form of clerestory.
- clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- 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.
- climacterics — Plural form of climacteric.
- clinozoisite — a monoclinic mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, a variety of epidote, dimorphous with zoisite.
- cloisterless — a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters