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12-letter words containing en

  • christenings — Plural form of christening.
  • christophene — chayote.
  • chrome green — any green pigment made by mixing lead chromate with Prussian blue
  • chromocenter — karyosome (def 1).
  • churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • circassienne — a kind of light cashmere
  • 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
  • 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.
  • citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
  • city chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
  • civic center — In a city or town, a civic center is a building or buildings that contain local government offices and often recreational or cultural facilities for the public.
  • civic centre — the public buildings of a town, including recreational facilities and offices of local administration
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
  • clean energy — energy, as electricity or nuclear power, that does not pollute the atmosphere when used, as opposed to coal and oil, that do.
  • clean-shaven — If a man is clean-shaven, he does not have a beard or a moustache.
  • clement viii — (Ippolito Aldobrandini) 1536–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1592–1605.
  • clement xiii — (Carlo della Torre Rezzonico) 1693–1769, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1758–69.
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • client state — A client state is a country which is controlled or influenced by another larger and more powerful state, or which depends on this state for support and protection.
  • close-shaven — (of hair) cut very short
  • closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact
  • clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
  • co-dependent — A co-dependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
  • co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
  • co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
  • co-recipient — one of two or more recipients, as of an award.
  • cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
  • cocarcinogen — a substance that can promote cancer when acting with other substances, but which does not promote cancer by itself
  • cocksureness — The state or condition of being cocksure.
  • code segment — (memory)   (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
  • codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
  • codependence — (uncountable) The state of being co-dependent.
  • codependency — of or relating to a relationship in which one person is physically or psychologically addicted, as to alcohol or gambling, and the other person is psychologically dependent on the first in an unhealthy way.
  • coefficients — Plural form of coefficient.
  • coelenterata — the phylum comprising the coelenterates.
  • coelenterate — any invertebrate of the phylum Cnidaria (formerly Coelenterata), having a saclike body with a single opening (mouth), which occurs in polyp and medusa forms. Coelenterates include the hydra, jellyfishes, sea anemones, and corals
  • coenesthesia — general awareness of one's own body
  • coenospecies — a collection of related species able to hybridize
  • coerciveness — serving or tending to coerce.
  • cogeneration — the process of generating electricity and steam from the same power plant
  • cogenerators — Plural form of cogenerator.
  • cohesiveness — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
  • coincidences — Plural form of coincidence.
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