12-letter words containing e, m, a, c, s
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- complex salt — a salt that contains one or more complex ions
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- compost heap — an outdoor pile of compostabale material that degrades into compost
- compulsative — compulsory
- concealments — Plural form of concealment.
- conservatism — Conservatism is a political philosophy which believes that if changes need to be made to society, they should be made gradually. You can also refer to the political beliefs of a conservative party in a particular country as Conservatism.
- console game — a video game requiring the use of a games console
- consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- consummative — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- containments — Plural form of containment.
- contaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contaminate.
- contemplates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contemplate.
- corporealism — materialism
- cosmetically — a powder, lotion, lipstick, rouge, or other preparation for beautifying the face, skin, hair, nails, etc.
- cosmeticians — Plural form of cosmetician.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- costume ball — a fancy dress ball
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- crash helmet — A crash helmet is a helmet that motorcyclists wear in order to protect their heads if they have an accident.
- crassamentum — a blood clot
- cream cheese — Cream cheese is a very rich, soft white cheese.
- cream sherry — a full-bodied sweet sherry
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cyclostomate — having a round mouth
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- death camass — any liliaceous plant of the genus Zygadenus (or Zigadenus), of the western US, that is poisonous to livestock, esp sheep
- deathmatches — Plural form of deathmatch.
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- democratised — Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.
- democratiser — one who democratises