12-letter words containing c, l, a, d, n
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- quindecaplet — a group of 15
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
- re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- rideau canal — a waterway in SE Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa Riverin Ottawa to Lake Ontario in Kingston. 125 miles (202 km) long.
- roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scandalously — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- scot and lot — British History. a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.
- second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
- selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
- self-command — self-control.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- syndactylous — having fingers, or toes, united
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- translucidus — (of a cloud) sufficiently transparent as not to obscure the sun, moon, or higher clouds.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- unacclimated — not accustomed or adapted to
- unascendable — not able to be ascended or climbed
- uncalculated — not calculated; that has not been computed or evaluated
- uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- uncalled for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
- uncalled-for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
- uncatalogued — not added to or detailed in a catalogue
- uncelebrated — not celebrated or marked by festivities; unremarked
- unchallenged — a euphemism for disabled (usually preceded by an adverb): physically challenged.
- unchannelled — not conveyed or routed along a channel