12-letter words containing s, e, n, c, i, o
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- cementitious — of, relating to, or characteristic of cement
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cessationism — The concept, amongst most Christians, that the works of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) ceased at some point in history.
- cessationist — One who subscribes to cessationism.
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
- chemokinesis — the random movement of cells, such as leucocytes, stimulated by substances in their environment
- chicharrones — A Hispanic dish; made of fried pork rinds.
- china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
- chinese copy — an exact copy of an original
- 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.
- chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
- choir-screen — a partition or a screen in a church that acts as a divide between the choir and the aisles
- cholericness — The state or quality of being choleric.
- chondriosome — mitochondrion
- christophene — chayote.
- chronologies — Plural form of chronology.
- chronologise — Alternative spelling of chronologize.
- 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
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- clinozoisite — a monoclinic mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, a variety of epidote, dimorphous with zoisite.
- cloddishness — The quality of being cloddish.
- closed chain — any structural arrangement, used in the models and formulas of molecules, consisting of a chain of atoms that forms a closed geometric figure; ring
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- closefitting — fitting tightly, esp. in such a way as to show the contours of the body
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- closing time — Closing time is the time when something such as a shop, library, or pub closes and people have to leave.
- clothes-line — a strong, narrow rope, cord, wire, etc., usually stretched between two poles, posts, or buildings, on which clean laundry is hung to dry.
- clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
- clotheslines — Plural form of clothesline.
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- coarse grain — granularity
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- coefficients — Plural form of coefficient.
- coenesthesia — general awareness of one's own body
- coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
- coerciveness — serving or tending to coerce.