12-letter words containing t, e, c, u
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- centuplicate — to increase 100 times
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- cerium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the terbium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- chaetiferous — having bristles
- chaff-cutter — a machine used to chop up hay and straw to make it into chaff for feeding to cattle
- chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
- characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
- charcuteries — Plural form of charcuterie.
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- charterhouse — a Carthusian monastery
- chartularies — Plural form of chartulary.
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
- cheesecutter — a board with a wire attached for cutting cheese
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
- chew the cud — to reflect or think over something
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chorusmaster — the conductor of a choir
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
- 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
- cinque terre — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- circumcenter — the center of a circumscribed circle; that point where any two perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a polygon inscribed in the circle intersect.
- circumcentre — the centre of a circumscribed circle
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumrotate — to turn like a wheel; rotate
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- citriculture — the cultivation of citrus fruits
- 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.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- clausthalite — a rare mineral, lead selenide, PbSe, occurring in grayish, granular crystals that have a metallic luster.
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- closemouthed — not talking much; telling little; taciturn
- closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- cloture rule — a rule adopted by the United States Senate in 1917 that enables the breaking of a filibuster