12-letter words containing c, a, r, l, f
- free radical — an atom or molecule that bears an unpaired electron and is extremely reactive, capable of engaging in rapid chain reactions that destabilize other molecules and generate many more free radicals: in the body, deactivated by antioxidants, uric acid, and certain enzyme activities.
- french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
- french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- frictionally — In terms of friction.
- gentle craft — the sport of angling or fishing (usually preceded by the).
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- horrifically — causing horror.
- inartificial — Not artificial; natural; simple; artless.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- 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.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- left bracket — (character) "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- 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
- 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
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- manufactural — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- multifractal — (mathematics) Describing a system that is fractal in multiple ways.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- nonolfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- nuclear fuel — Physics. fissile or fertile material that undergoes fission in a nuclear reactor.
- nuclear-free — A nuclear-free place is a place where nuclear energy or nuclear weapons are forbidden.
- olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.