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

  • liturgically — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
  • loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
  • local colour — Local colour is used to refer to customs, traditions, dress, and other things which give a place or period of history its own particular character.
  • locarno pact — a series of treaties, concluded in Locarno, Switzerland in 1925, between Germany, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The principal treaty, between Germany, France, and Belgium, concerned the maintenance of their existing frontiers, settlement of disputes by arbitration without resort to force, and the demilitarization of the Rhineland. This treaty was guaranteed by the United Kingdom and Italy but was violated when Germany occupied the Rhineland in 1936
  • lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
  • locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
  • locoregional — Restricted to a localized region of the body.
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • loop reactor — A loop reactor is a reactor in which the material is pumped round one or more vessels or stages in a continuous process.
  • loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
  • lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
  • loyalty card — customer incentive scheme
  • lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
  • lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
  • luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
  • lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
  • macassar oil — an oil derived from materials said to be obtained from Macassar, formerly used as a hairdressing.
  • mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
  • macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
  • macroclimate — the general climate of a large area, as of a continent or country.
  • macroculture — The dominant culture in a society, its overculture.
  • macrodactyly — a condition of abnormally large fingers or toes
  • macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
  • macroglossia — Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
  • macromineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
  • macronuclear — Of or pertaining to a macronucleus.
  • macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
  • magic circle — the British association of magicians, traditionally forbidden to reveal any of the secrets of their art
  • mail carrier — a person, usually employed by the post office, who delivers mail.
  • majolicaware — goods made from majolica
  • malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
  • malt extract — a sweet, gummy substance derived from an infusion of malt.
  • manufactural — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
  • marcellus ii — (Marcello Cervini) 1501–55, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555.
  • mare clausum — a body of navigable water under the sole jurisdiction of a nation.
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • master class — a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.
  • matriarchial — Characteristic of or pertaining to a matriarchy. Alternative form of matriarchal.
  • matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
  • matriculants — Plural form of matriculant.
  • matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
  • matriculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of matriculate.
  • matriculator — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
  • matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
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