12-letter words containing c, l, e, p, t, o
- electrotyper — One who electrotypes.
- electrotypes — Plural form of electrotype.
- electrotypic — relating to, or resulting from, electrotypy
- entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
- escapologist — An entertainer specializing in escaping from the confinement of such things as ropes, handcuffs, and chains.
- exceptionals — Plural form of exceptional.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- explications — Plural form of explication.
- floor pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
- fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- galactoscope — a lactoscope.
- geopolitical — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- heteroleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having two or more types of ligand.
- heterophilic — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- hypochlorite — a salt or ester of hypochlorous acid.
- hypothetical — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompletely — not complete; lacking some part.
- incompletion — the state of being incomplete; incompleteness.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inspectional — Of or pertaining to an inspection.
- inspectorial — Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
- 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.
- lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
- leptocephali — Plural form of leptocephalus.
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- loop reactor — A loop reactor is a reactor in which the material is pumped round one or more vessels or stages in a continuous process.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- metaphorical — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- mucopurulent — containing or composed of mucus and pus.
- multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.