12-letter words containing e, n, s, i
- 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.
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- clannishness — of, relating to, or characteristic of a clan.
- clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- 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.
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- coarse grain — granularity
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- coefficients — Plural form of coefficient.
- coenesthesia — general awareness of one's own body
- coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
- coerciveness — serving or tending to coerce.
- cognoscitive — having the ability to know or discover: cognoscitive powers.
- cohesionless — lacking cohesion
- cohesiveness — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- coincidences — Plural form of coincidence.
- collinsville — a city in SW Illinois.
- colonialised — to make colonial.
- colonialness — the quality of being colonial
- commanderies — the office or rank of a commander.
- commensalism — a close association or union between two kinds of organisms, in which one is benefited by the relationship and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- commentaries — Plural form of commentary.
- commissioned — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- commissioner — A commissioner is an important official in a government department or other organization.
- common snipe — a bird, Gallinago gallinago, of marshes and river banks, having a long straight bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
- commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.
- commorientes — people whose deaths are so close to each other (being caused by the same calamity) that it is not possible to determine who died first. It is assumed that the elder person died first
- communicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of communicate.
- compassioned — a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.