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11-letter words containing a, l, o, c

  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • cameo glass — an ornamental glass in which two layers, often blue and opaque white, have been cased, and on which the design has been treated in the manner of a cameo.
  • camino real — a main road; highway.
  • camouflaged — concealed or disguised
  • camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
  • camouflagic — relating to camouflage
  • campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • cancelation — an act of canceling.
  • cancelmoose — (messaging)   A semi-mythical being that cancels Usenet articles posted by others. (In general, an article can only be cancelled by its original author.) The Cancelmoose's usual target is spam or extremely excessive cross-posting. Some believe that the Cancelmoose exists only in the same mythic sense that B1FF, the NSA line eater and Shub Internet exist; others consider Cancelmoose's historicity to be closer to that of Kibo. The latter group assume that the real Cancelmoose is not one person (or moose), but instead is a cabal of NNTP wonks. However, the Cancelmoose is probably real, seeing as how it has its own website.
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • candle-foot — foot-candle
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • candy floss — cotton candy.
  • cannabidiol — (organic compound) A non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
  • cannel coal — a dull coal having a high volatile content and burning with a smoky luminous flame
  • cannon-ball — a missile, usually round and made of iron or steel, designed to be fired from a cannon.
  • cannonballs — Plural form of cannonball.
  • cannulation — a metal tube for insertion into the body to draw off fluid or to introduce medication.
  • canonically — pertaining to, established by, or conforming to a canon or canons.
  • canophilist — a person who loves dogs
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • capaciously — In a capacious manner.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • cape-glossa — Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.
  • capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
  • caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
  • capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
  • capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
  • carbocyclic — (of a chemical compound) containing a closed ring of carbon atoms
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
  • carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
  • carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
  • carcinology — the study of crustaceans
  • cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
  • cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
  • careless of — indifferent to; untroubled by
  • cargo liner — a cargo ship that sails regularly between designated ports according to a published schedule.
  • cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
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