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12-letter words containing c, l, a, r, t

  • black letter — a kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type
  • black market — If something is bought or sold on the black market, it is bought or sold illegally.
  • black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
  • black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
  • black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
  • black-market — to black-marketeer.
  • blackcurrant — In Europe, blackcurrants are a type of very small, dark purple fruits that grow in bunches on bushes.
  • blackhearted — wicked; evil
  • blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
  • block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • call letters — Call letters are the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • card catalog — a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.
  • cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
  • cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
  • carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
  • carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
  • carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
  • carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
  • cartological — relating to cartology
  • cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
  • caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
  • cat squirrel — the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.
  • cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
  • cataphyllary — a scale-like, simple form of a leaf, such as those which surround a bud
  • catastrophal — (rare) Catastrophic.
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