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12-letter words containing l, e, a, t

  • center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • central asia — a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south. It includes the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and parts of Iran, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, and southwestern Siberia.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
  • central-fire — center-fire.
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
  • centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
  • centuplicate — to increase 100 times
  • cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
  • cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
  • cerium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the terbium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
  • ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
  • cetatea albă — Romanian name of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.
  • cetylic acid — palmitic acid.
  • chain letter — A chain letter is a letter, often with a promise of money, that is sent to several people who send copies on to several more people. Chain letters are illegal in some countries.
  • chalcanthite — a blue secondary mineral consisting of hydrated copper sulphate in triclinic crystalline form. Formula: CuSO4.5H2O
  • chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
  • chalicothere — any of various very large extinct Tertiary horselike perissodactyl mammals that had clawed feet but otherwise resembled titanotheres
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
  • chanterelles — Plural form of chanterelle.
  • chanticleers — Plural form of chanticleer.
  • characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
  • charge plate — an identification plate, especially one from which an impression can be taken, issued to a customer and used to make purchases on a credit basis.
  • charity sale — a sale in aid of charity
  • chartularies — Plural form of chartulary.
  • chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
  • chattel real — an interest in land less than a freehold, such as a lease
  • cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
  • chelicerates — Plural form of chelicerate.
  • cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
  • chi particle — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
  • china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
  • chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
  • chloroacetic — an acid made by chlorinating acetic acid
  • chloroethane — ethyl chloride.
  • chocolatiers — Plural form of chocolatier.
  • circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
  • citlaltepetl — a volcano in SE Mexico, in central Veracruz state: the highest peak in the country. Height: 5636 m (18 492 ft), though this is disputed between different sources
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
  • clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
  • claptrappery — the art of eliciting applause
  • clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
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