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12-letter words containing a, r, o, l

  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
  • box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
  • brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • brooks's law — (programming)   "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
  • buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • camerapeople — a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or TV camera.
  • camphor ball — mothball
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
  • 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.
  • carbocholine — carbachol.
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • 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
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
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