12-letter words containing c, l
- anglo-celtic — of or relating to an inhabitant of Australia who was or whose ancestors were born in the British Isles
- anglo-french — of or relating to England and France
- anglo-gallic — noting or pertaining to the coins or series of coins issued by the English kings from Henry II to Henry VIII for their French domains.
- anglophiliac — a strong admiration or enthusiasm for England, its people, and things English.
- anglophobiac — a person with a fear or dread of England or the English
- animal black — any of various black pigments, as boneblack or ivory black, obtained from calcined animal matter.
- animalculism — the theory explaining psychological and pathological phenomena through animalcules
- animalculist — a person who subscribes to the theory of animalculism
- animalculous — a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
- annihilistic — Relating to annihilation.
- announceable — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- anorthoclase — a variety of microcline, rich in sodium and sometimes having a play of color: sometimes considered a variety of orthoclase.
- antanaclasis — a form of speech in which a key word is repeated and used in a different, and sometimes contrary, way for a play on words, as in The craft of a politician is to appear before the public without craft.
- antarafacial — (chemistry) Of a chemical reaction, involving two simultaneous changes in bonding to opposite faces of a common centre (or related centres) of a molecular fragment.
- antebrachial — Lb anatomy relating to the forearm.
- antecedental — preceding; prior: an antecedent event.
- antecedently — in an antecedent manner
- anthelic arc — a rare halo occurring at the sun's elevation but in the opposite part of the sky.
- anthelmintic — killing or ejecting intestinal worms
- anthological — a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject: an anthology of Elizabethan drama; an anthology of modern philosophy.
- anti-nuclear — opposed to military and industrial applications of nuclear energy and to technologies which produce radioactive waste products
- anti-radical — opposed to radicalism or radicals.
- antiallergic — An antiallergic substance prevents or relieves allergies.
- antibacklash — relating to the prevention of a violent backward reaction or movement
- antibiblical — Opposing or contradicting the Bible.
- antibiotical — Of or pertaining to antibiotics.
- antiblackism — a belief or type of behaviour which exhibits hostility towards Black people
- anticatalase — a substance that inhibits the enzymatic action of a catalase.
- anticatalyst — a substance that destroys or diminishes the activity of a catalyst
- anticipately — (dated) In anticipation, in advance; anticipatedly.
- anticlerical — opposed to the power and influence of the clergy, esp in politics
- anticlimatic — Misspelling of anticlimactic.
- anticlimaxes — Plural form of anticlimax.
- anticlotting — of a nature that prevents blood clotting
- anticolonial — opposed to colonialism
- anticultural — against culture or civilization
- anticyclical — not conforming to or following a cycle: anticyclical sales that rise when the economy fades.
- anticyclones — Plural form of anticyclone.
- anticyclonic — Of, relating to, or consisting of an anticyclone.
- antielectron — an elementary particle with a positive charge, a positron
- antileukemic — acting against leukemia
- antilynching — opposed to lynching, acting against lynching
- antinucleons — Plural form of antinucleon.
- antiparticle — any of a group of elementary particles that have the same mass and spin as their corresponding particle but have opposite values for all other nonzero quantum numbers. When a particle collides with its antiparticle, mutual annihilation occurs
- antiphonical — Alternative form of antiphonic.
- antipolitics — the rejection of party and electoral politics
- antisociable — Antisocial.
- antisocially — In an antisocial manner.
- antithetical — Something that is antithetical to something else is the opposite of it and is unable to exist with it.
- antiviolence — opposed to or acting against violence in society