12-letter words containing e, t, c
- achievements — Plural form of achievement.
- acid-tongued — bitingly critical or sarcastic; sharp-tongued: a critic famous for his acid-tongued reviews.
- acoustimeter — a portable electronic device for measuring noise levels, especially those of traffic.
- acquaintance — An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well.
- acquirements — Plural form of acquirement.
- acquittances — Plural form of acquittance.
- acrophonetic — relating to the use of symbols to represent sounds
- act the goat — to fool around
- actabilities — Plural form of actability.
- actinometers — Plural form of actinometer.
- actinometric — Of or pertaining to actinometry.
- actinomycete — any bacterium of the group Actinomycetes, usually filamentous in form
- actinostelic — Of or possessing an actinostele.
- action movie — film focussed on action sequences
- active layer — (in arctic or subarctic regions) the layer of soil, above the permafrost, that thaws during the summer.
- active voice — a voice of verbs used to indicate that the subject of a sentence is performing the action or causing the event or process described by the verb, as kicked in the boy kicked the football
- acute accent — the diacritical mark (´), used in the writing system of some languages to indicate that the vowel over which it is placed has a special quality (as in French été) or that it receives the strongest stress in the word (as in Spanish hablé)
- acute-angled — (of a triangle) having three acute angles
- addictedness — the state of being addicted
- adelie coast — a part of Antarctica, between Wilkes Land and George V Land: the mainland section of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories (claim suspended under the Antarctic Treaty)
- adenectomies — Plural form of adenectomy.
- adiaphoretic — preventing or reducing perspiration.
- adjectivally — as an adjective
- adjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- adjudicature — An act of adjudication; a judgment.
- adjunctively — in an adjunctive manner
- adminiculate — to attest or corroborate; to confirm or affirm as true
- adolescently — in an adolescent manner
- adriatic sea — an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula
- adularescent — (of minerals, such as moonstone) having or emitting a milky or bluish iridescence
- advancements — Plural form of advancement.
- aerification — an act of combining with air.
- aeroacoustic — Relating to aeroacoustics.
- aerodonetics — the study of soaring or gliding flight, esp the study of gliders
- aeroelastics — the study of aeroelastic phenomena.
- aeromagnetic — of magnetism in the atmosphere
- aeronautical — Aeronautical means involving or relating to the design and construction of aeroplanes.
- aesthetician — a student of aesthetics
- aestheticism — the doctrine that aesthetic principles are of supreme importance and that works of art should be judged accordingly
- aestheticist — a person devoted to aesthetics and the pursuit of beauty
- aestheticize — make aesthetic
- aethrioscope — an instrument which measures temperature changes caused by different conditions of the sky
- aetiological — of or relating to aetiology
- affectations — Plural form of affectation.
- affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- affectionado — Misspelling of aficionado.
- affectionate — If you are affectionate, you show your love or fondness for another person in the way that you behave towards them.
- afflictively — in a distressing, troublesome, or afflictive manner
- african time — unpunctuality
- afrocentrism — centered on Africa or on African-derived cultures, as those of Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti: Afrocentric art.