12-letter words containing r, e, l, c, t, i
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- caterpillars — Plural form of caterpillar.
- caterpillers — Archaic spelling of caterpillarst; Plural form of caterpiller.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- cattle drive — the process of moving cattle across country, often carried out by cowboys on horseback
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
- celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
- celtic cross — a Latin cross with a broad ring surrounding the point of intersection
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- 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 city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
- 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.
- 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.
- cerium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the terbium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
- 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.
- chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
- chalicothere — any of various very large extinct Tertiary horselike perissodactyl mammals that had clawed feet but otherwise resembled titanotheres
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- chanticleers — Plural form of chanticleer.
- charity sale — a sale in aid of charity
- chartularies — Plural form of chartulary.
- chelicerates — Plural form of chelicerate.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- chi particle — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
- chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
- chlorimetric — of or relating to chlorimetry
- chloroacetic — an acid made by chlorinating acetic acid
- chocolatiers — Plural form of chocolatier.
- choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
- circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
- citriculture — the cultivation of citrus fruits
- 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 dweller — a resident or inhabitant of a city
- city slicker — If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life.
- 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.
- clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clatteringly — With a clattering sound.