12-letter words containing c, e, l, o
- inflectional — of, relating to, or used in inflection: an inflectional ending.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- initial code — a system used in the U.S. to facilitate the delivery of mail, consisting of a five- or nine-digit code printed directly after the address, the first five digits (initial code) indicating the state and post office or postal zone, the last four (expanded code) the box section or number, portion of a rural route, building, or other specific delivery location.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- inspectional — Of or pertaining to an inspection.
- inspectorial — Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
- intellection — the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning.
- interclusion — the act of intercluding
- intercoastal — existing or done between seacoasts; involving two or more seacoasts.
- intercollege — intercollegiate.
- intercolline — (of a valley or hollow) situated between hills
- intercoolers — Plural form of intercooler.
- intercostals — Plural form of intercostal.
- interlocking — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- interlocuter — A person who participates in a conversation.
- interlocutor — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- internucleon — internuclear
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- into decline — If something goes or falls into decline, it begins to gradually decrease in importance, quality, or power.
- intolerances — Plural form of intolerance.
- ironicalness — The quality of being ironical.
- irreciprocal — not reciprocal
- irreconciled — not reconciled, esp with God
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- joliot-curie — Irène [ee-ren] /iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), (Irène Curie) 1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).
- joule effect — the generation of heat by the passage of electricity through a resistance.
- junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- ketoconazole — a synthetic substance, C 26 H 28 Cl 2 N 4 O 4 , used to treat a variety of fungal infections.
- kick oneself — regret sth
- killer micro — [Popularised by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsizers. Used especially of RISC architectures. The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
- kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- kona cyclone — a slow-moving cyclone occuring during the winter over the subtropical Pacific Ocean.
- 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.
- lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.