12-letter words containing n, o, s, e, a, l
- beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
- bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
- blanket toss — a game in which a person is repeatedly tossed into the air and caught on an open blanket by a group of people who hold the blanket at its edges and stretch and relax it for each toss and catch.
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
- calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
- canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
- canonicalise — (transitive, computing, UK) Alternative form of canonicalize.
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- castellation — Architecture. built like a castle, especially with turrets and battlements.
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
- china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- clap eyes on — to catch sight of
- close season — In football and some other sports, the close season is the period of the year when the sport is not played professionally.
- close-shaven — (of hair) cut very short
- closed chain — any structural arrangement, used in the models and formulas of molecules, consisting of a chain of atoms that forms a closed geometric figure; ring
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
- collagenases — Plural form of collagenase.
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- colonialised — to make colonial.
- colonialness — the quality of being colonial
- commensalism — a close association or union between two kinds of organisms, in which one is benefited by the relationship and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
- commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.
- commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- concealments — Plural form of concealment.
- concessional — concessionary
- coney island — an island off the S shore of Long Island, New York: site of a large amusement park
- confessional — A confessional is the small room in a church where Christians, especially Roman Catholics, go to confess their sins.
- congelations — Plural form of congelation.
- conscionable — acceptable to one's conscience
- consensually — formed or existing merely by consent: a consensual transaction.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- console game — a video game requiring the use of a games console
- consolidated — consolidated (def 2).
- consolidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of consolidate.