12-letter words containing s, i
- cirrus logic — (company) A manufacturer of integrated circuits including the Advanced RISC Machine and display interface processors and cards for use as Windows accelerators (requiring dedicated driver software).
- citrus fruit — any fruit belonging to the genus Citrus
- city fathers — You can refer to the members of a city council or city's government as the city fathers.
- 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 rights — Civil rights are the rights that people have in a society to equal treatment and equal opportunities, whatever their race, sex, or religion.
- 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.
- civilisation — Alternative spelling of civilization.
- civvy street — People in the armed forces use civvy street to refer to life and work which is not connected with the armed forces.
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
- claims ratio — The claims ratio is the percentage of claims costs incurred in relation to the premiums earned.
- clairvoyants — Plural form of clairvoyant.
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clams casino — broiled clams topped with garlic butter, bacon, bread crumbs, etc. and served in their bottom shells
- clannishness — of, relating to, or characteristic of a clan.
- clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- class action — A class action is a legal case brought by a group of people rather than an individual.
- classicalism — classicism
- classicality — (uncountable) The condition of being classical.
- classicistic — Of or pertaining to classicism.
- classifiable — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
- classloading — (computing, Java) The dynamic loading of classes into a virtual machine, as performed by a classloader.
- clausthalite — a rare mineral, lead selenide, PbSe, occurring in grayish, granular crystals that have a metallic luster.
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clavieristic — relating to a clavier
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- clerestories — Plural form of clerestory.
- clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- client state — A client state is a country which is controlled or influenced by another larger and more powerful state, or which depends on this state for support and protection.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- climacterics — Plural form of climacteric.
- climbingfish — climbing perch.
- clinozoisite — a monoclinic mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, a variety of epidote, dimorphous with zoisite.
- clintonomics — (used with a singular verb) the economic policies set forth by President Bill Clinton.
- clipper ship — clipper (def 4).
- clipper-ship — a person or thing that clips or cuts.
- cliquishness — The state of being cliquish.
- cloddishness — The quality of being cloddish.
- cloisterless — a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
- clonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- close stitch — buttonhole stitch.
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
- 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.