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12-letter words containing a, l, c, y

  • biologically — pertaining to biology.
  • birch family — the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.
  • black beauty — a Biphetamine capsule.
  • black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
  • black canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada: site of Boulder Dam.
  • black cherry — a tree of the species Prunus serotina, having a small fleshy rounded edible fruit containing a hard stone
  • black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
  • black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
  • cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • calculatedly — in a calculated manner
  • calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
  • caliginosity — darkness
  • call of duty — responsibilities
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • call-by-need — (reduction)   A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • calvin cycle — a series of reactions, occurring during photosynthesis, in which glucose is synthesized from carbon dioxide
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • calycoideous — calycoid
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
  • capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
  • caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
  • capital city — the seat of government of a country or other political unit
  • capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
  • capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
  • capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
  • capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
  • carbamylurea — biuret.
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
  • carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
  • cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
  • cataphyllary — a scale-like, simple form of a leaf, such as those which surround a bud
  • cataphysical — perverse; contrary to nature
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
  • cationically — in a cationic manner
  • cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
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