12-letter words that end in t
- come to rest — When an object that has been moving comes to rest, it finally stops.
- command post — A command post is a place from which a commander in the army controls and organizes his forces.
- commencement — The commencement of something is its beginning.
- commentariat — the journalists and broadcasters who analyse and comment on current affairs
- commissariat — A commissariat is a military department that is in charge of food supplies.
- common swift — Apus apus, a bird with long narrow wings which spends most of the time on the wing
- communionist — a person with a particular view or interpretation of communion, as specified.
- completement — (obsolete) Act of completing or perfecting; completion.
- complex salt — a salt that contains one or more complex ions
- concelebrant — each of the priests celebrating the Eucharist or Mass jointly
- concertinist — Someone who plays the concertina.
- conchologist — One who collects shells, especially for the purpose of scientific study.
- concupiscent — lustful or sensual.
- confoundment — The state of being confounded.
- confrontment — Confrontation.
- confucianist — the system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
- conglutinant — (of the edges of a wound or fracture) promoting union; adhesive
- congratulant — expressing congratulation
- conjointment — (rare) conjunction (state of being conjoined).
- conspiracist — a person who believes in or supports a conspiracy theory.
- constringent — constricting.
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- contagionist — a person who, before conclusive proof is available, maintains that certain diseases are contagious
- conterminant — enclosed within a common boundary
- contract out — If a company contracts out work, they employ other companies to do it.
- contranatant — (of migrating fish) swimming upstream, against the current
- contrivement — contrivance
- control unit — the part of the computer that processes hardware, software, and user inputs and directs their implementation
- convalescent — Convalescent means relating to convalescence.
- convincement — The act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction.
- convivialist — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
- cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
- cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- coquilla nut — the nut of a South American palm tree, Attalea funifera, having a hard brown shell used for carving
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
- core subject — the three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
- corespondent — a person charged with having committed adultery with the wife or husband from whom a divorce is being sought
- corporealist — a materialist
- cosmochemist — a student of cosmochemistry
- cost-account — to subject to cost accounting.
- cost-benefit — denoting or relating to a method of assessing a project that takes into account its costs and its benefits to society as well as the revenue it generates
- cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
- cottage flat — any of the flats in a two-storey house that is divided into four flats, two on each floor
- council flat — a flat built or owned by a local council
- counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object