12-letter words containing c, l, o, u, e, t
- double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch clover — white clover.
- earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
- electrocuted — Simple past tense and past participle of electrocute.
- electrocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrocute.
- electrofluor — a transparent material that stores electrical energy and subsequently releases it as light
- electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elocutionist — Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- equinoctials — Plural form of equinoctial.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- etymologicum — an etymological dictionary
- eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
- exclusionist — Acting to shut out or bar someone from a place, group, or privilege.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
- fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
- fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- galactagogue — A food or drug that promotes or increases the flow of a mother’s milk.
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- 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
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.