12-letter words containing en
- center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
- center punch — a steel punch for marking a spot where a hole is to be drilled
- center stage — If something or someone takes center stage, they become very important or noticeable.
- center wheel — the wheel driving the minute and hour hands of a timepiece.
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centeredness — The state of being centered.
- centerpieces — Plural form of centerpiece.
- centillionth — (in Britain and Germany) a number equal to 10–600
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- central asia — a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south. It includes the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and parts of Iran, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, and southwestern Siberia.
- central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
- central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
- central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
- central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
- central-fire — center-fire.
- centralising — Present participle of centralise.
- centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
- centre court — the main court of a tennis complex, esp at Wimbledon
- centre punch — a small steel tool with a conical tip used to punch a small indentation at the location of the centre of a hole to be drilled
- centre stage — If something or someone takes centre stage, they become very important or noticeable.
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
- centrosphere — the portion of the centrosome surrounding the centriole; center of an aster
- 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
- ch-ien--lung — (Kao Tsung) 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.
- chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
- chastisement — Chastisement is the same as punishment.
- chastizement — Alternative form of chastisement.
- chemosensory — sensitive to chemical stimuli, as the sensory nerve endings that mediate taste and smell.
- chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
- chichen itza — a village in Yucatán state in Mexico: site of important Mayan ruins
- chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
- chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
- chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
- chicken head — (graphics, abuse) The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
- chicken kiev — boned chicken breasts pounded until thin, wrapped around lumps of herbed butter, breaded, and fried in butter or deep fat, and usually served with kasha or brown rice
- chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
- chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- chilien shan — Qilian Shan.
- chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
- chloroethene — vinyl chloride.
- chlorophenol — any of three isomers having the formula C 6 H 5 ClO, derived from chlorine and phenol, used chiefly as intermediates in the manufacture of dyes.
- choir-screen — a partition or a screen in a church that acts as a divide between the choir and the aisles