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12-letter words containing n, t, e

  • broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • brown butter — beurre noir.
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
  • buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • by the dozen — in large quantities
  • bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
  • cabinet wine — cabinet (def 10).
  • cabinet-wine — a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • 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.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • 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
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • camp meeting — a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
  • can't happen — (programming)   The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled by emitting a fatal error message and terminating or crashing, since there is little else that can be done. Some case variant of "can't happen" is also often the text emitted if the "impossible" error actually happens. Although "can't happen" events are genuinely infrequent in production code, programmers wise enough to check for them habitually are often surprised at how frequently they are triggered during development and how many headaches checking for them turns out to head off. See also firewall code, professional programming.
  • canaliculate — having a groove or grooves
  • cancellation — the fact or an instance of cancelling
  • cancer stick — a cigarette.
  • candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • canine tooth — canine (def 2).
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
  • canton linen — a fabric made from tough vegetable fibers, used for table linens, wall coverings, etc.
  • canton river — Zhu Jiang.
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