12-letter words containing e, u, i
- chilli sauce — a highly seasoned sauce made of tomatoes cooked with chilli and other spices and seasonings
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chromiferous — Containing, or yielding chromium.
- churlishness — The state of being churlish.
- cichoraceous — relating to plants of the sub-order Cichoraceae
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
- 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
- cinque terre — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- circularised — Simple past tense and past participle of circularise.
- circularises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circularise.
- circularized — Simple past tense and past participle of circularize.
- circularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circularize.
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- circumcenter — the center of a circumscribed circle; that point where any two perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a polygon inscribed in the circle intersect.
- circumcentre — the centre of a circumscribed circle
- circumcircle — a circle that transects the vertices of a polygon
- circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
- circumflexes — Plural form of circumflex.
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumfusile — able to be diffused or poured around
- circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumrotate — to turn like a wheel; rotate
- circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
- circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- citriculture — the cultivation of citrus fruits
- ciudad ojeda — a city in NW Venezuela, on Lake Maracaibo.
- 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.
- claim-jumper — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- clausthalite — a rare mineral, lead selenide, PbSe, occurring in grayish, granular crystals that have a metallic luster.
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- cliquishness — The state of being cliquish.
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs