12-letter words containing b, a, c, u, l
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- class b drug — (in Britain) any of the second most dangerous group of controlled drugs, including amphetamine
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- clubbability — The quality of being clubbable.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- connubialism — the state of being married
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
- costume ball — a fancy dress ball
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- countability — the fact of being countable
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- culpableness — The state or quality of being culpable.
- cultivatable — Cultivable.
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cut fastball — a fastball that breaks somewhat like a curve ball, due to increased pressure from the tip of the middle finger.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gas bacillus — any of several pathogenic bacilli, especially of the genus Clostridium, that produce gas in infected tissue.