12-letter words containing a, l, c, i, d, n
- leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
- line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- loading coil — an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- malonic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 3 H 4 O 4 , easily decomposed by heat: used chiefly as an intermediate in the synthesis of barbiturates.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mid-atlantic — using, manifesting, or characterized by a mixture of American and British behavior or speech.
- multiplicand — a number to be multiplied by another.
- nautical day — a period from noon of one day to noon of the next, used in reckoning time aboard ship.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- nonidentical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- nonmedically — In a nonmedical manner.
- nonmedicinal — Not medicinal.
- nucleic acid — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- occidentally — In an occidental manner.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- oleandomycin — a macrolide antibiotic used to treat skin infections
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- quindecaplet — a group of 15
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
- rideau canal — a waterway in SE Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa Riverin Ottawa to Lake Ontario in Kingston. 125 miles (202 km) long.
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert