12-letter words containing c, l, o, t, r
- black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
- 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.
- block letter — a plain capital letter
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
- butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- 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.
- 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
- cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
- cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
- 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.
- 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.
- cartological — relating to cartology
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- catastrophal — (rare) Catastrophic.
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celtic cross — a Latin cross with a broad ring surrounding the point of intersection
- centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
- cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
- cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
- ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
- chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
- chalicothere — any of various very large extinct Tertiary horselike perissodactyl mammals that had clawed feet but otherwise resembled titanotheres
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- charcoal rot — a disease of plants, especially sorghum, corn, etc., characterized by basal stem lesions and a black discoloration and dry rot of the internal tissues at the base of the stem and upper roots, caused by a fungus, Macrophomina phaseoli.
- chartophylax — an official who serves chiefly as the chancellor and archivist of a diocese.
- chill factor — windchill factor
- chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
- chlorimetric — of or relating to chlorimetry
- chlorinating — Present participle of chlorinate.
- chlorination — Chemistry. to combine or treat with chlorine. to introduce chlorine atoms into an organic compound by an addition or substitution reaction.
- chloroacetic — an acid made by chlorinating acetic acid