12-letter words containing s, e, n, a
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- correlations — Plural form of correlation.
- cosmeticians — Plural form of cosmetician.
- cotoneasters — Plural form of cotoneaster.
- cotton state — Alabama (used as a nickname).
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
- countenances — Plural form of countenance.
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- counterpanes — Plural form of counterpane.
- counterparts — a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- counterscarp — the outer side of the ditch of a fort
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- counterstain — to apply two or more stains in sequence to (a specimen to be examined), each of which colours a different tissue
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- counterstate — across state; traversing the state
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- country seat — A country seat is a large house with land in the country which is owned by someone who also owns a house in a town.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- crassamentum — a blood clot
- crassulacean — as in crassulacean acid metabolism, a method of photosynthesis
- creationists — Plural form of creationist.
- creativeness — having the quality or power of creating.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- criticalness — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- culpableness — The state or quality of being culpable.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- cyanogenesis — the release by certain plants, such as cherry laurel, of hydrogen cyanide, esp after wounding or invasion by pathogens
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- damnableness — The state or quality of being damnable.
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dancing step — balanced step.
- daniel jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.