11-letter words containing c, a, l
- aeroculture — a method of growing plants without soil by suspending them above sprays that constantly moisten the roots with water and nutrients.
- aeroelastic — capable of changing shape under aerodynamic forces
- aeromedical — relating to the medical treatment of disorders associated with air or space travel
- aerosol can — a container for substances stored as aerosols, such as paint, polish, or insecticide
- aesculapian — of or relating to Aesculapius or to the art of medicine
- aesculapius — the Roman god of medicine or healing
- aesthetical — of or relating to aesthetics.
- affectingly — In a manner so as to affect.
- affectional — relating to or implying affection.
- affectively — in an emotional manner
- afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
- after-lunch — occurring after a midday meal
- aftercooler — a device for cooling compressed air or gases to reduce their volume or temperature.
- afterschool — for students and taking place after they finish their day in school, usually in the late afternoon: He’s looking for an afterschool job. Is there afterschool tutoring in math?
- agnatically — from an agnatic point of view
- agonic line — an imaginary line on the surface of the earth connecting points of zero magnetic declination
- agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
- agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
- agriculture — Agriculture is farming and the methods that are used to raise and look after crops and animals.
- agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- ahistorical — not related to history; not historical
- ai-complete — (artificial intelligence, jargon) /A-I k*m-pleet'/ (MIT, Stanford: by analogy with "NP-complete") A term used to describe problems or subproblems in artificial intelligence, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the "strong AI problem" (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence). A problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. See also gedanken.
- air cavalry — an infantry or reconnaissance unit transported by air to combat areas.
- air cleaner — a filter that prevents dust and other particles from entering the air-intake of an internal-combustion engine
- air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
- alarm clock — An alarm clock is a clock that you can set to make a noise so that it wakes you up at a particular time.
- alaska crab — king crab (def 2).
- alaska-crab — horseshoe crab.
- album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
- album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
- albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
- alcalescent — Alternative spelling of alkalescent.
- alcaligenes — any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products.
- alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
- alcoholized — Simple past tense and past participle of alcoholize.
- alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
- alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
- aleggeaunce — the alleviation of grief or a burden
- alembicated — (of a literary style) excessively refined; precious
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- algological — Of or pertaining to algology.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
- aliturgical — designating those days on which the celebration of certain liturgies, especially the Eucharist, is forbidden.
- alkalescent — developing alkaline qualities
- alkali rock — any igneous rock with a marked preponderance of alkali and a low percentage of silica.
- all at once — If something happens all at once, it happens suddenly, often when you are not expecting it to happen.
- allegiances — the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.
- allegorical — An allegorical story, poem, or painting uses allegory.