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12-letter words containing b, a, n, l

  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • 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.
  • call-by-need — (reduction)   A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
  • cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
  • cannibalized — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalize.
  • cannibalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cannibalize.
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
  • 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
  • carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
  • carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
  • cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
  • celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
  • central bank — a national bank that does business mainly with a government and with other banks: it regulates the volume and cost of credit
  • chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
  • channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
  • channel bass — red drum.
  • charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
  • chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • chlorocarbon — a chemical compound containing carbon and chlorine, as carbon tetrachloride, or containing carbon, chlorine, and hydrogen, as chloroform.
  • chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • clara barton — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
  • clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
  • cleanability — the ability to be cleaned
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • cobalt green — a medium, yellowish-green color.
  • cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
  • collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
  • 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.
  • complainable — That may be complained of.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • concelebrant — each of the priests celebrating the Eucharist or Mass jointly
  • concelebrate — to celebrate (the Eucharist or Mass) jointly with one or more other priests
  • 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.
  • conglobation — Formation into a ball, globe or rounded mass.
  • conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
  • connubialism — the state of being married
  • connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
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