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12-letter words containing te

  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • carpetbeater — A tool used in housecleaning that was in common use before the invention of the vacuum cleaner.
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • caste system — the division of Hindu society into four major hereditary classes
  • castellation — Architecture. built like a castle, especially with turrets and battlements.
  • caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
  • caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
  • casting vote — When a committee has given an equal number of votes for and against a proposal, the chairperson can give a casting vote. This vote decides whether or not the proposal will be passed.
  • cataphracted — covered with an armor of horny or bony plates or scales.
  • catechetical — of or relating to teaching by question and answer
  • catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • categoricity — The quality of being categorical.
  • categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
  • cater-cousin — a close friend
  • caterpillars — Plural form of caterpillar.
  • caterpillers — Archaic spelling of caterpillarst; Plural form of caterpiller.
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • catheterized — Simple past tense and past participle of catheterize.
  • catheterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catheterize.
  • cathetometer — an instrument measuring minute height differences
  • celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
  • cellarmaster — a person in charge of a wine cellar.
  • cement steel — steel produced by the cementation of wrought iron or mild steel.
  • centenarians — Plural form of centenarian.
  • centennially — As part of a centennial.
  • center field — the middle area of the outfield
  • 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.
  • centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
  • centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
  • centuplicate — to increase 100 times
  • cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
  • certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
  • certificates — Plural form of certificate.
  • cetatea albă — Romanian name of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.
  • chaff-cutter — a machine used to chop up hay and straw to make it into chaff for feeding to cattle
  • chain letter — A chain letter is a letter, often with a promise of money, that is sent to several people who send copies on to several more people. Chain letters are illegal in some countries.
  • chalcanthite — a blue secondary mineral consisting of hydrated copper sulphate in triclinic crystalline form. Formula: CuSO4.5H2O
  • chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
  • chamaephytes — Plural form of chamaephyte.
  • chanterelles — Plural form of chanterelle.
  • chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
  • chapter head — printed material appearing before and usually above the text of a chapter, as a title, number, quotation, etc.
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