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12-letter words containing close

  • china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
  • close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
  • close helmet — a completely closed helmet of the late 15th century and after, having a facial defense composed of a visor and beaver or of a visor, ventail, and beaver attached to a pivot on each side.
  • close season — In football and some other sports, the close season is the period of the year when the sport is not played professionally.
  • close stitch — buttonhole stitch.
  • close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
  • close-hauled — with the sails flat, so as to sail as close to the wind as possible
  • close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
  • close-reefed — having most or all of the sail reefs taken in.
  • close-shaven — (of hair) cut very short
  • 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 cycle — a heat engine in which the working substance is continuously circulated and does not need replenishment
  • closed shell — (in atomic structure) a shell that contains the maximum number of electrons permitted by the exclusion principle.
  • closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
  • closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
  • closefitting — fitting tightly, esp. in such a way as to show the contours of the body
  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
  • closemouthed — not talking much; telling little; taciturn
  • closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
  • closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact
  • couple-close — Heraldry. a narrow chevron, one-quarter the usual breadth.
  • earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
  • linen closet — a closet in which sheets, towels, table linens, etc., are kept.
  • queen closer — a brick of normal length and thickness but of half normal width, used to complete a course or to space regular bricks.
  • scott-closed — A set S, a subset of D, is Scott-closed if (1) If Y is a subset of S and Y is directed then lub Y is in S and (2) If y <= s in S then y is in S. I.e. a Scott-closed set contains the lubs of its directed subsets and anything less than any element. (2) says that S is downward closed (or left closed). ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.

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