12-letter words containing n, t, e
- china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
- chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
- chloroethane — ethyl chloride.
- chloroethene — vinyl chloride.
- christenings — Plural form of christening.
- christianise — to make Christian.
- christianite — (mineral) alternative name of phillipsite.
- christianize — to make Christian or convert to Christianity
- christophene — chayote.
- chromocenter — karyosome (def 1).
- chromonemata — a chromosome thread that is relatively uncoiled at early prophase but assumes a spiral form at metaphase.
- chronometers — Plural form of chronometer.
- chronometric — of a chronometer or chronometry
- chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
- 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
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
- cinematizing — Present participle of cinematize.
- 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.
- citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
- city chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
- city edition — an early edition of a daily newspaper on sale locally, usually a later edition than the one sent for out-of-town distribution.
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- civic center — In a city or town, a civic center is a building or buildings that contain local government offices and often recreational or cultural facilities for the public.
- civic centre — the public buildings of a town, including recreational facilities and offices of local administration
- 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.
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clatteringly — With a clattering sound.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs