12-letter words containing c, a, r, e, l, s
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- garlic press — kitchen tool for crushing garlic
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- horse-collar — (especially in baseball) a score of zero.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hyper-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hysterically — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- ice crystals — ice formations
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- illiteracies — Plural form of illiteracy.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- inspectorial — Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
- intercalates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercalate.
- intercoastal — existing or done between seacoasts; involving two or more seacoasts.
- intercostals — Plural form of intercostal.
- interlacings — Plural form of interlacing.
- interspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- intolerances — Plural form of intolerance.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- irish gaelic — Irish (def 4).
- ironicalness — The quality of being ironical.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
- jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties