12-letter words containing a, n, u, l
- camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
- camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
- canaliculate — having a groove or grooves
- capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
- capitulation — the act of capitulating
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- cash journal — cashbook.
- cash-in-lieu — Cash-in-lieu is payment of cash instead of stock when a stock splits or changes and the shareholder only owns a partial share.
- catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- centuplicate — to increase 100 times
- channel surf — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- channel-surf — to switch TV channels repeatedly using a remote-control device, usually so as to sample brief segments of programs
- chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
- charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- churchillian — relating to, typical of or reminiscent of Winston Churchill
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- clangorously — In a clangorous manner; ringingly.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- coconut palm — A coconut palm is a tall tree on which coconuts grow.
- colliquation — liquefaction
- colluctation — a struggle or conflict
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- conceptually — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
- conclusional — the end or close; final part.
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- confabulator — to converse informally; chat.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.