12-letter words containing c, a, l, n, d, r
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- irda control — (standard) (IrDA-C, formerly IrBUS) Infrared standard from IrDA. IrDA Control is a low speed communication standard that allows cordless peripherals such as keyboards, mice, game pads, and joysticks to interact with intelligent host devices. Host devices include PCs, home appliances, game machines, and television and web set-top boxes. IrDA Control supports data rates of 75 Kbps at up to 8 metres, and is designed to integrate with devices that use USB HID. Parts and products featuring IrDA Control are expected in 1998. See also IrDA Data, AIR.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- landing card — an identification card issued to a traveler for presentation to the immigration authorities.
- lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
- meter-candle — lux. Abbreviation: mc.
- narco-dollar — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- narcodollars — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
- re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- rideau canal — a waterway in SE Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa Riverin Ottawa to Lake Ontario in Kingston. 125 miles (202 km) long.
- roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- translucidus — (of a cloud) sufficiently transparent as not to obscure the sun, moon, or higher clouds.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- uncalled for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
- uncalled-for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
- uncelebrated — not celebrated or marked by festivities; unremarked
- uncharnelled — removed from a charnel; exhumed
- uncirculated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- uncorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- uncreditable — of ignoble character
- unprocedural — not procedural, not following proper procedures
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unrecordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.