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

  • categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
  • cater-cousin — a close friend
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • catherine ii — known as Catherine the Great. 1729–96, empress of Russia (1762–96), during whose reign Russia extended her boundaries at the expense of Turkey, Sweden, and Poland: she was a patron of literature and the arts
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • catty-corner — Something that is catty-corner or kitty-corner from another thing is placed or arranged diagonally from it.
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
  • cement mixer — A cement mixer is a machine with a large revolving container into which builders put cement, sand, and water in order to make concrete.
  • 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.
  • centenarians — Plural form of centenarian.
  • center field — the middle area of the outfield
  • center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • center punch — a steel punch for marking a spot where a hole is to be drilled
  • center stage — If something or someone takes center stage, they become very important or noticeable.
  • center wheel — the wheel driving the minute and hour hands of a timepiece.
  • centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
  • centeredness — The state of being centered.
  • centerpieces — Plural form of centerpiece.
  • centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
  • central asia — a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south. It includes the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and parts of Iran, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, and southwestern Siberia.
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
  • central-fire — center-fire.
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
  • 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
  • centre stage — If something or someone takes centre stage, they become very important or noticeable.
  • 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.
  • centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
  • centrosphere — the portion of the centrosome surrounding the centriole; center of an aster
  • centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
  • centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
  • ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
  • cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
  • cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
  • cerebrotonic — relating to or resembling a personality type characterized by shyness, introspection, and emotional restraint, and often associated with an ectomorphic physique
  • cerivastatin — A synthetic statin formerly used to lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular disease, later withdrawn due to the risk of rhabdomyolysis.
  • chain letter — A chain letter is a letter, often with a promise of money, that is sent to several people who send copies on to several more people. Chain letters are illegal in some countries.
  • change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
  • channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
  • chanterelles — Plural form of chanterelle.
  • chanticleers — Plural form of chanticleer.
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