12-letter words containing c, o, a, l
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- carisoprodol — a crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 12 H 24 N 2 O 4 , used as a muscle relaxant.
- carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
- carlovingian — Carolingian
- 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.
- carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
- carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
- cartological — relating to cartology
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- cash journal — cashbook.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- castellation — Architecture. built like a castle, especially with turrets and battlements.
- castile soap — a hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
- catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
- catastrophal — (rare) Catastrophic.
- catch a cold — to make a loss; lose one's investment
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
- cationically — in a cationic manner
- cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- cavaco silva — Aníbal (aˈnibal). born 1939, Portuguese statesman; prime minister (1985–95); president (2006–16)
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- cavo-relievo — a relief sculpture in which the highest point in the carving is below the level of the original surface
- cebocephalic — Exhibiting or relating to cebocephaly.
- cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- 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
- cephalopodic — relating to or resembling a cephalopod
- ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
- chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
- chalazogamic — relating to the process of chalazogamy
- chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
- chalcography — the art of engraving on copper or brass
- chalcolithic — of or relating to a period characterized by the use of both stone and bronze implements
- 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
- change color — to become pale
- channel iron — a rolled-steel bar with a U-shaped cross section
- channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- 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.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000