12-letter words containing a, d, o, l
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
- board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
- boudin blanc — a boiled sausage made with light-colored meat, as veal or chicken, and without blood
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
- bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
- buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
- call of duty — responsibilities
- call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
- calycoideous — calycoid
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- cancelpoodle — (messaging) (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
- candleholder — a candlestick
- cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
- cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
- cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- card catalog — a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
- carisoprodol — a crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 12 H 24 N 2 O 4 , used as a muscle relaxant.
- carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
- catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
- catch a cold — to make a loss; lose one's investment
- cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
- cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- cephalopodic — relating to or resembling a cephalopod
- chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron