12-letter words containing s, a, c, r, e
- camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
- cancer stick — a cigarette.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
- cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
- canorousness — The quality of being musical.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
- caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- car expenses — incidental money spent on the operation of a car during the performance of a job, commission, etc, usually reimbursed by an employer or allowable against tax
- caravan site — A caravan site is an area of land where people can stay in a caravan on holiday, or where people live in caravans.
- caravanserai — (in some Eastern countries esp formerly) a large inn enclosing a courtyard providing accommodation for caravans
- caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
- carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
- carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- carefreeness — without anxiety or worry.
- carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
- carey street — (formerly) the street in which the London bankruptcy court was situated
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
- carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
- carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
- carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
- carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
- carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
- case grammar — a system of grammatical description based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence
- case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
- casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
- cash receipt — A cash receipt is a proof of purchase issued when the buyer has paid in cash.
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
- catachrestic — Constituting or related to catachresis.
- cataphoreses — Plural form of cataphoresis.
- cataphoresis — electrophoresis
- catastrophes — Plural form of catastrophe.
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
- catch phrase — a phrase that attracts or is meant to attract attention.
- catch-phrase — A catch-phrase is a sentence or phrase which becomes popular or well-known, often because it is frequently used by a famous person.
- catchphrases — Plural form of catchphrase.
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.