12-Letter Words Containing: CIES

• an expectation

• something expected (as on the basis of a norm)

• the quality of being suited to the end in view

• lack of an adequate quantity or number

• a lack of competence

• unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate

• fawning obsequiousness

• an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels

• a title used to address dignitaries (such as ambassadors or governors); usually preceded by `Your' or `His' or `Her'

• divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)

• a state of complete lack of some abstract property

• inability to discharge all your debts as they come due

• a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent