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

  • birth family — one's biological parents and siblings, as contrasted with one's adoptive family.
  • black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
  • boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
  • brambleberry — the fruit of a bramble.
  • by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
  • calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
  • 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.
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • 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.
  • carbamylurea — biuret.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
  • ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • chimerically — In a chimerical manner.
  • chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
  • chromatology — chromatics.
  • clamourously — Archaic spelling of clamorously.
  • class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born
  • clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
  • climatically — of or relating to climate.
  • clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • come-all-you — a street ballad, especially in England.
  • commandingly — being in command: a commanding officer.
  • commensality — eating together at the same table.
  • commercially — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
  • compulsatory — compulsory
  • conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
  • consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
  • cosmetically — a powder, lotion, lipstick, rouge, or other preparation for beautifying the face, skin, hair, nails, etc.
  • cotemporally — At the same time.
  • crape myrtle — an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
  • crumble away — disintegrate
  • crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
  • crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
  • cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
  • cyclostomate — having a round mouth
  • cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
  • cytochemical — the branch of cell biology dealing with the detection of cell constituents by means of biochemical analysis and visualization techniques.
  • daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
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