12-letter words containing m, e, t, r, n, i
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- chronometric — of a chronometer or chronometry
- 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
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- 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.
- citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
- commentariat — the journalists and broadcasters who analyse and comment on current affairs
- commentaries — Plural form of commentary.
- 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
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- complimenter — a person who compliments
- concremation — the cremation of multiple things or people at the same time, esp suttee
- confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- conformities — Plural form of conformity.
- conservatism — Conservatism is a political philosophy which believes that if changes need to be made to society, they should be made gradually. You can also refer to the political beliefs of a conservative party in a particular country as Conservatism.
- consumerists — Plural form of consumerist.
- contemporise — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contemporize — to be or make contemporary; synchronize
- conterminant — enclosed within a common boundary
- conterminate — conterminous
- conterminous — enclosed within a common boundary
- contrivement — contrivance
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- countermined — Simple past tense and past participle of countermine.
- countermines — Plural form of countermine.
- country mile — a long way
- craniometric — the science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain time — the time at which a play or other performance is scheduled to begin.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- declinometer — an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- degerminated — degerm (def 2).
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- demagnetizer — Any device (often a furnace) that is used to remove magnetization.