12-letter words containing i, s, o, e
- 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
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- 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.
- clinozoisite — a monoclinic mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, a variety of epidote, dimorphous with zoisite.
- cloddishness — The quality of being cloddish.
- cloisterless — a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
- close stitch — buttonhole stitch.
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
- 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.
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- 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
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- 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
- codiscoverer — a fellow discoverer
- 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.
- cohesibility — the nature of being cohesible
- cohesionless — lacking cohesion
- cohesiveness — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- coincidences — Plural form of coincidence.
- coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
- collectibles — capable of being collected.
- collectivise — Alternative spelling of collectivize.
- collectivism — Collectivism is the political belief that a country's industries and services should be owned and controlled by the state or by all the people in a country. Socialism and communism are both forms of collectivism.
- collectivist — Collectivist means relating to collectivism.
- collegialism — the theory that the church's highest authority is its collective membership
- collegiates' — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- collinsville — a city in SW Illinois.
- colonialised — to make colonial.