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12-letter words containing n, e, u, t

  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
  • calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • 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.
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • 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.
  • carry a tune — to be able to sing in tune
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • 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
  • cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
  • celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
  • cementitious — of, relating to, or characteristic of cement
  • 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.
  • center punch — a steel punch for marking a spot where a hole is to be drilled
  • centre court — the main court of a tennis complex, esp at Wimbledon
  • centre punch — a small steel tool with a conical tip used to punch a small indentation at the location of the centre of a hole to be drilled
  • centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
  • centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
  • 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
  • cinque terre — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
  • 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.
  • citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
  • civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
  • clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
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