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12-letter words containing c, e, l, p

  • crepusculous — Alternative form of crepuscular.
  • crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
  • crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
  • cryptanalyze — to study (a cryptogram) for the purpose of discovering the clear meaning; break (a code, cipher, etc.).
  • cryptolocker — (security)   The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
  • culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
  • culpableness — The state or quality of being culpable.
  • cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
  • curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
  • curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
  • curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
  • cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
  • cyclopentane — a colourless insoluble cycloalkane found in petroleum and used mainly as a solvent. Formula: C5H10
  • cyclopropane — a colourless flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, used in medicine as an anaesthetic; trimethylene. It is a cycloalkane with molecules containing rings of three carbon atoms. Formula: C3H6; boiling pt: –34°C
  • cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
  • cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
  • d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
  • debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
  • decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decapitalize — to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
  • decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
  • decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
  • deduplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of deduplicate.
  • deep ecology — a radical environmental movement and philosophy that regards humans as equal to other organisms within the global ecosystem.
  • depoliticise — Alternative spelling of depoliticize.
  • depoliticize — to deprive of a political nature; render apolitical
  • desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
  • despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
  • dicarpellary — having two carpels
  • diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
  • diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
  • diplodocuses — Plural form of diplodocus.
  • discerptible — capable of being torn apart; divisible.
  • discipleship — (initial capital letter) a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
  • displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
  • displacement — the act of displacing.
  • display case — glass box, cabinet
  • displeasance — the state or cause of being displeased
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • double piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
  • double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
  • dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
  • duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
  • duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
  • ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
  • electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
  • electrophile — (chemistry) a compound or functional group that is attractive to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond.
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