12-letter words that end in ne
- cash machine — ATM1
- cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
- chloroethane — ethyl chloride.
- chloroethene — vinyl chloride.
- christophene — chayote.
- cinchonidine — an alkaloid that is a stereoisomer of cinchonine, with similar properties and uses
- circassienne — a kind of light cashmere
- citizen kane — an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- clothes-line — a strong, narrow rope, cord, wire, etc., usually stretched between two poles, posts, or buildings, on which clean laundry is hung to dry.
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- coin machine — slot machine (def 2).
- comfort zone — a situation or position in which a person feels secure, comfortable, or in control
- command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
- contact mine — a naval mine designed to explode on contact with the hull of a ship.
- contour line — a line on a map or chart joining points of equal height or depth
- copy machine — A copy machine is the same as a copier.
- coulter pine — a California pine, Pinus coulteri, having stout, bluish-green needles and heavy cones 9 to 14 inches (23 to 36 cm) long.
- country lane — a narrow country road, often bordered by hedges
- crawler lane — a lane on an uphill section of a motorway reserved for slow vehicles
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- curtain line — the last line of a scene, act, etc., as in a play; tag line.
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- cyclolignane — (organic chemistry) Any lignane having an additional ring.
- cyclopentane — a colourless insoluble cycloalkane found in petroleum and used mainly as a solvent. Formula: C5H10
- cyclopropane — a colourless flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, used in medicine as an anaesthetic; trimethylene. It is a cycloalkane with molecules containing rings of three carbon atoms. Formula: C3H6; boiling pt: –34°C
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- cypress pine — any coniferous tree of the Australian genus Callitrus, having leaves in whorls and yielding valuable timber: family Cupressaceae
- cypress vine — a tropical American convolvulaceous climbing plant, Ipomoea pennata, having finely divided compound leaves and scarlet or white tubular flowers
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- daniel boone — Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.
- demimondaine — a woman of the demimonde
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- detectophone — a secret listening device, the predecessor of the modern 'bug'
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- diamond lane — a highway or street lane for buses and passenger vans marked with a large diamond shape on the pavement.
- diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
- diethylamine — (organic compound) The secondary amine (CH3CH2)2NH.
- dineolignane — (organic chemistry) Any derivative of a lignane having four propylbenzene residues.
- disingenuine — (proscribed) Disingenuous.
- dog and bone — a telephone
- drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
- dry gangrene — death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
- dual in-line — (hardware) Dual In-Line Package.