12-letter words containing act
- characteries — Plural form of charactery.
- characterise — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- characterism — the description of character
- characterize — If something is characterized by a particular feature or quality, that feature or quality is an obvious part of it.
- chill factor — windchill factor
- chiropractic — Chiropractic is the treatment of injuries by pressing and moving people's joints, especially the spine.
- chiropractor — A chiropractor is a person who treats injuries by chiropractic.
- class action — A class action is a legal case brought by a group of people rather than an individual.
- climacterics — Plural form of climacteric.
- coactivation — Activation of two or more things together.
- compact disc — Compact discs are small shiny discs that contain music or computer information. The abbreviation CD is also used.
- compact disk — an optical disk approximately 4.75 inches (12 cm) in diameter, on which a program, data, music, etc., is digitally encoded for a laser beam to scan, decode, and transmit to a playback system, computer monitor, or television set. Abbreviation: CD.
- contact high — a state of altered consciousness caused by inhaling the drugs other people are smoking
- contact lens — Contact lenses are small plastic lenses that you put on the surface of your eyes to help you see better, instead of wearing glasses.
- contact mine — a naval mine designed to explode on contact with the hull of a ship.
- contract law — the branch of law that deals with contracts
- contract out — If a company contracts out work, they employ other companies to do it.
- contractable — capable of being contracted
- contractedly — in a shortened manner
- contractible — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- contractions — Plural form of contraction.
- contractural — characterized by contractures
- contractured — a shortening or distortion of muscular or connective tissue due to spasm, scar, or paralysis of the antagonist of the contracting muscle.
- contractures — Plural form of contracture.
- cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
- counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- counteracted — Simple past tense and past participle of counteract.
- counteracter — Something that counteracts.
- court action — a legal action
- cross-action — an action brought within the same lawsuit by one defendant against another defendant or against the plaintiff.
- dactinomycin — a cytotoxic polypeptide, C 62 H 86 N 12 O 16 , isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces parvullus, used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- dactyliology — the study of finger-rings
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- dactylozooid — (zoology) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora with an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth.
- deactivating — Present participle of deactivate.
- deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
- didactically — In a didactic manner.
- didacticisms — Plural form of didacticism.
- distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
- distractedly — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distractions — Plural form of distraction.
- ebracteolate — having no bractlets
- ectrodactyly — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- enemy action — offensive military action by your military enemy
- enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
- exactingness — The state of being exacting.
- extractively — in an extractive manner
- fact of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.