12-letter words containing n, a, t, u, c
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- canaliculate — having a groove or grooves
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
- capitulation — the act of capitulating
- captiousness — The state of being captious.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- caricaturing — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- carry a tune — to be able to sing in tune
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- cash account — an account with a brokerage which stipulates that the client pays in full for any transactions, rather than being extended credit
- catamountain — any of several wildcats, esp. the leopard or the European wildcat
- catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- causationism — the theory of universal causation
- causationist — a person who believes in the theory of universal causation
- cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- census taker — a person who gathers information for a census.
- census tract — a standard area in certain large American cities used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for purposes of population enumeration.
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- centuplicate — to increase 100 times
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
- 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.
- chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
- chauvinistic — If you describe someone as chauvinistic, you believe that they think their own country is more important and morally better than any other.
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinhuangtao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- chota nagpur — a plateau in E India, mainly in Jharkhand state since 2000: forested, with rich mineral resources and much heavy industry; produces chiefly lac (world's leading supplier), coal (half India's total output), and mica
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- churchianity — loyalty to the church rather than Christianity
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- 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.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine