12-letter words containing n, a, c, e
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- exactingness — The state of being exacting.
- excandescent — Glowing with heat.
- excavational — Relating to excavation.
- exceptionals — Plural form of exceptional.
- exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
- exclamations — Plural form of exclamation.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- excogitating — Present participle of excogitate.
- excogitation — Careful thought or consideration.
- excoriations — Plural form of excoriation.
- excruciating — Intensely painful.
- excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
- exercitation — (obsolete) The exercise or exertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- expectancies — Plural form of expectancy.
- expectations — Plural form of expectation.
- expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
- explications — Plural form of explication.
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- extracranial — on the exterior of the skull, outside the skull
- extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
- extravagance — Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
- extravagancy — (archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- eye-catching — Something that is eye-catching is very noticeable.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- face flannel — washcloth
- face-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- facelessness — The state or condition of being faceless.
- facial angle — Craniometry. the angle formed by a line from nasion to prosthion at its intersection with the plane of the Frankfurt horizontal.
- facial index — Craniometry. the ratio of the breadth of a face to its height.
- facial nerve — either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing.
- factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- fancifulness — The quality of being fanciful.
- fantasticate — to make or render fantastic.
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- farcicalness — The property of being farcical.
- fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- felicitating — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fence lizard — either of two spiny lizards, Sceloporus undulatus and S. occidentalis, of the U.S. and northern Mexico, often seen on fences.
- fenian cycle — the cycle of legends describing and glorifying the bravery, battles, and wandering life of the Irish Fenians, especially under the leadership of Finn.
- fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
- fer de lance — a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
- fer-de-lance — a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
- ferricyanide — a salt of ferricyanic acid, as potassium ferricyanide, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 .