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12-letter words that end in t

  • charge sheet — a document on which a police officer enters details of the charge against a prisoner and the court in which he will appear
  • chastisement — Chastisement is the same as punishment.
  • chastizement — Alternative form of chastisement.
  • cheshire cat — a cat in the children's story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), notable for its broad smile
  • chew the fat — If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
  • chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
  • chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
  • chief priest — the highest ranking among a number of priests
  • china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
  • chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
  • chirognomist — someone who studies chirognomy
  • chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
  • chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
  • choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
  • choroid coat — a pigmented, highly vascular membrane of the eye that is continuous with the iris and lies between the sclera and the retina, functioning to nourish the retina and absorb scattered light.
  • chronologist — a person versed in chronology.
  • chuck off at — to abuse or make fun of
  • circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
  • circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
  • circumscript — Rare. limited or confined.
  • citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
  • citrus fruit — any fruit belonging to the genus Citrus
  • civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
  • civvy street — People in the armed forces use civvy street to refer to life and work which is not connected with the armed forces.
  • clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
  • clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
  • clarinettist — A clarinettist is someone who plays the clarinet.
  • class object — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • claw hatchet — a hatchet with a claw at one end of its head for extracting nails
  • clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
  • close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
  • close helmet — a completely closed helmet of the late 15th century and after, having a facial defense composed of a visor and beaver or of a visor, ventail, and beaver attached to a pivot on each side.
  • cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
  • clovis point — flint projectile dating from the 10th millennium bc
  • 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-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.
  • coalitionist — An advocate of coalition or a partner in a coalition.
  • cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
  • coccidiostat — a drug used to treat coccidiosis
  • 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.
  • coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
  • cold comfort — If you say that a slightly encouraging fact or event is cold comfort to someone, you mean that it gives them little or no comfort because their situation is so difficult or unpleasant.
  • coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
  • collar point — a point midway between the heart point and top of an escutcheon.
  • collectivist — Collectivist means relating to collectivism.
  • colour chart — a chart with samples of paint colours
  • colposcopist — an instrument that magnifies the cells of the cervix and vagina to permit direct observation and study of the living tissue.
  • column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
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