12-letter words containing t, c
- agricultural — Agricultural means involving or relating to agriculture.
- agriproducts — Plural form of agriproduct.
- aircraftsman — a person holding the rank of noncommissioned officer in the RAF.
- airport code — a three-letter abbreviation of the names of the world's major airports, used especially as an identifier for routing baggage.
- alant starch — inulin.
- albert canal — ship canal in Belgium, from Liège to Antwerp: 81 mi (131 km)
- alcaptonuria — Alternative spelling of alkaptonuria.
- alcoholicity — the strength of an alcoholic liquor
- alias dictus — otherwise called; alias.
- allegoristic — writing or using allegory; interpreting in an allegorical sense.
- allelopathic — relating to or characterized by allelopathy
- allotropical — (chemistry, rare) Of or pertaining to an element that exhibits allotropy.
- alphabetical — Alphabetical means arranged according to the normal order of the letters in the alphabet.
- alphitomancy — the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
- altercations — Plural form of altercation.
- altiloquence — Pompous language; lofty speech.
- alveolectomy — The surgical reshaping of the alveolar ridge to facilitate dental prosthesis.
- amber nectar — beer
- ambitendency — ambivalence, especially when acted out; a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.
- aminobutyric — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
- amitotically — the direct method of cell division, characterized by simple cleavage of the nucleus without the formation of chromosomes.
- amniotic sac — membrane around embryo or foetus
- amperometric — relating to or involving the measurement of an electric current
- amphiblastic — (of animal ova) showing complete but unequal cleavage after fertilization
- amphibolitic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of an amphibolite.
- amphictyonic — of or relating to an amphictyon or an amphictyony.
- amphithecium — the outer layer of cells of the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts that develops into the outer parts of the spore-bearing capsule
- amphotericin — an amphoteric antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus and used in the treatment of fungal infections.
- amyl acetate — banana oil
- anabaptistic — relating to Anabaptists
- anacatharsis — severe vomiting
- anacathartic — causing anacatharsis
- anachronists — Plural form of anachronist.
- anacolouthon — Alternative spelling of anacoluthon (A break in sequence, that occurs when the scheme of a sentence is changed in its course. Incoherence in a sentence.).
- anaerobiotic — anaerobic
- anaesthetics — the science, study, and practice of anaesthesia and its application
- anagrammatic — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- analog watch — a watch that represents time by the position of hands on a dial.
- analphabetic — not in alphabetical order
- analytically — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- anapaestical — belonging to the form of poetry which uses a reversed dactyl consisting of two short syllables followed by a long one
- anaphylactic — exaggerated allergic reaction to a foreign protein resulting from previous exposure to it.
- anapodeictic — (rare, rhetoric) not able to be shown or proved by argument; undemonstrable.
- anastigmatic — (of a lens or optical device) not astigmatic
- anatomically — of or relating to anatomy.
- anchor light — a 32-point light, visible from at least two miles away, shown at night near the bow and not more than 20 feet (6 meters) above the deck of a vessel lying at anchor.
- anchor plant — a South American shrub, Colletia cruciata, of the buckthorn family, having flattened green branches and yellowish-white flowers.
- anchor watch — a deck watch maintained by the crew of a ship at anchor.
- anchoritical — in the manner of or resembling an anchorite
- and counting — If you say and counting after a number or an amount of something, you mean that the number or amount is continuing to increase.