12-letter words containing c, a, b, l, e
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- leachability — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- leader cable — a submarine cable laid along a channel and emitting signals that a vessel can follow when visibility is poor.
- leaf tobacco — tobacco in leaf form
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- left bracket — (character) "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
- liberalistic — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- little abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
- magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
- mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
- mecca balsam — balm-of-Gilead (def 2).
- mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
- mental block — inability to recall
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
- non-celibate — a person who abstains from sexual relations.
- non-culpable — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- nonbacterial — Not bacterial.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- object glass — objective (def 3).
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- oblanceolate — inversely lanceolate, as a leaf.
- octosyllable — a word or line of verse of eight syllables.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- osteoblastic — a bone-forming cell.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- palm cabbage — cabbage palm.
- participable — capable of being shared.
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.