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11-letter words containing c, l, o

  • aerobically — in an aerobic manner
  • aeroculture — a method of growing plants without soil by suspending them above sprays that constantly moisten the roots with water and nutrients.
  • aeroelastic — capable of changing shape under aerodynamic forces
  • aeromedical — relating to the medical treatment of disorders associated with air or space travel
  • aerosol can — a container for substances stored as aerosols, such as paint, polish, or insecticide
  • affectional — relating to or implying affection.
  • afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
  • aftercooler — a device for cooling compressed air or gases to reduce their volume or temperature.
  • afterschool — for students and taking place after they finish their day in school, usually in the late afternoon: He’s looking for an afterschool job. Is there afterschool tutoring in math?
  • agonic line — an imaginary line on the surface of the earth connecting points of zero magnetic declination
  • agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
  • agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
  • agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
  • ahistorical — not related to history; not historical
  • ai-complete — (artificial intelligence, jargon)   /A-I k*m-pleet'/ (MIT, Stanford: by analogy with "NP-complete") A term used to describe problems or subproblems in artificial intelligence, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the "strong AI problem" (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence). A problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. See also gedanken.
  • alarm clock — An alarm clock is a clock that you can set to make a noise so that it wakes you up at a particular time.
  • album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
  • alcoholized — Simple past tense and past participle of alcoholize.
  • alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
  • alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
  • aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
  • algological — Of or pertaining to algology.
  • algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
  • alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
  • alkali rock — any igneous rock with a marked preponderance of alkali and a low percentage of silica.
  • all at once — If something happens all at once, it happens suddenly, often when you are not expecting it to happen.
  • allegorical — An allegorical story, poem, or painting uses allegory.
  • allocatable — that can be allocated.
  • allocations — Plural form of allocation.
  • allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
  • allocheiria — a medical condition in which sensation is felt at a different point on the body from that stimulated
  • allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
  • allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
  • allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
  • allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
  • allopelagic — living or growing at different depths.
  • alloplastic — of or relating to alterations made to a patient's external circumstances for the purpose of affecting his mental condition
  • allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
  • almond cake — the residue of almonds from which oil has been expressed.
  • alpenstocks — Plural form of alpenstock.
  • alpha stock — any of the most active securities on the Stock Exchange of which there are between 100 and 200; at least ten market makers must continuously display the prices of an alpha stock and all transactions in them must be published immediately
  • alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
  • alt.sources — (messaging, programming)   A Usenet newsgroup for posting program source code.
  • altar cloth — the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
  • altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
  • altocumulus — a globular cloud at an intermediate height of about 2400 to 6000 metres (8000 to 20 000 feet)
  • amblyoscope — an instrument used to train an amblyopic eye to function properly.
  • ambulocetus — A large carnivorous amphibian (Ambulocetus natans).
  • ammonotelic — excreting ammonia as the main nitrogenous waste: characteristic of freshwater fishes and many aquatic invertebrates
  • amoxicillin — a penicillin antibiotic used to treat a wide range of bacterial infections
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