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12-letter words containing s, e, c, t

  • block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • book society — book club.
  • boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
  • c'est la vie — that's life
  • cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
  • cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
  • 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 school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
  • cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
  • caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • call letters — Call letters are the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
  • 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.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
  • capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • 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.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • 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.
  • carey street — (formerly) the street in which the London bankruptcy court was situated
  • 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
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