12-letter words containing c, e, l, u, a, r
- country lane — a narrow country road, often bordered by hedges
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- cradle vault — barrel vault.
- crassulacean — as in crassulacean acid metabolism, a method of photosynthesis
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- culturalized — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culture area — a region having a distinct pattern of culture.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- 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.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain line — the last line of a scene, act, etc., as in a play; tag line.
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- curule chair — an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- dearticulate — to disjoint, dislocate, or separate (something)
- denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- diuretically — In a diuretic way.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- eleutherarch — the chief of the eleutheri
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- epicuticular — Relating to the epicuticle.
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- exarticulate — (zoology) Having only one joint; said of certain insects.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.