12-letter words containing u, n, i, t, e
- centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- 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
- 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
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- 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.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- 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.
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- communicatee — a person to whom a communicator communicates
- communicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of communicate.
- concientious — Misspelling of conscientious.
- concupiscent — lustful or sensual.
- conductively — In a conductive manner.
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- confusticate — Slang. to confuse or perplex; bewilder.
- conglutinate — to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjecturing — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- conjunctivae — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
- conscientous — Misspelling of conscientious.
- conspectuity — vision or sight
- constituency — A constituency is an area for which someone is elected as the representative in a parliament or government.
- constituents — serving to compose or make up a thing; component: the constituent parts of a motor.
- constitutive — having power to enact, appoint, or establish
- constructive — A constructive discussion, comment, or approach is useful and helpful rather than negative and unhelpful.
- consultative — A consultative committee or document gives advice or makes proposals about a particular problem or subject.
- consumerists — Plural form of consumerist.
- consummative — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.