12-letter words containing ac
- chill factor — windchill factor
- chiropractic — Chiropractic is the treatment of injuries by pressing and moving people's joints, especially the spine.
- chiropractor — A chiropractor is a person who treats injuries by chiropractic.
- chloric acid — a strong acid with a pungent smell, known only in solution and in the form of chlorate salts. Formula: HClO3
- chloroacetic — an acid made by chlorinating acetic acid
- chromic acid — an unstable dibasic oxidizing acid known only in solution and in the form of chromate salts. Formula: H2CrO4
- cichoraceous — relating to plants of the sub-order Cichoraceae
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- city academy — (in England and Wales) a type of secondary school funded partly by the government and partly by private finance
- class action — A class action is a legal case brought by a group of people rather than an individual.
- cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
- clickjacking — the practice of using a disguised hyperlink to direct an internet user to a website he or she does not wish to visit
- climacterics — Plural form of climacteric.
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- coacervation — a reversible, emulsoid stage existing between the sol and gel formations, in which the addition of a third substance causes the separation of the sol into two immiscible liquid phases: an essential stage in the formation of proteins, antibodies, etc.
- coach driver — a person who drives a coach
- coachability — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- coactivation — Activation of two or more things together.
- coccobacilli — a spherelike bacillus.
- coelacanthic — of or relating to the coelacanth
- coin machine — slot machine (def 2).
- colacobiosis — (among social insects) life in which one species lives as a parasite in the community of another species.
- come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
- commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.
- compact disc — Compact discs are small shiny discs that contain music or computer information. The abbreviation CD is also used.
- compact disk — an optical disk approximately 4.75 inches (12 cm) in diameter, on which a program, data, music, etc., is digitally encoded for a laser beam to scan, decode, and transmit to a playback system, computer monitor, or television set. Abbreviation: CD.
- complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- conspiracies — Plural form of conspiracy.
- conspiracist — a person who believes in or supports a conspiracy theory.
- contact high — a state of altered consciousness caused by inhaling the drugs other people are smoking
- contact lens — Contact lenses are small plastic lenses that you put on the surface of your eyes to help you see better, instead of wearing glasses.
- contact mine — a naval mine designed to explode on contact with the hull of a ship.
- contract law — the branch of law that deals with contracts
- contract out — If a company contracts out work, they employ other companies to do it.
- contractable — capable of being contracted
- contractedly — in a shortened manner
- contractible — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- contractions — Plural form of contraction.
- contractural — characterized by contractures
- contractured — a shortening or distortion of muscular or connective tissue due to spasm, scar, or paralysis of the antagonist of the contracting muscle.
- contractures — Plural form of contracture.
- contumacious — stubbornly resistant to authority; wilfully obstinate
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- coprophiliac — of or relating to coprophilia
- copy machine — A copy machine is the same as a copier.
- corallaceous — having the nature of coral