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12-letter words containing c, o, e, l

  • chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
  • chocolatiers — Plural form of chocolatier.
  • choicelessly — In a choiceless manner.
  • choke collar — a training collar for a dog, that tightens when the dog strains at the leash
  • cholerically — In a choleric manner.
  • cholericness — The state or quality of being choleric.
  • chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
  • chopper tool — a core tool of flint or stone, with a transverse cutting edge, characteristic of cultures in Asia and parts of the Middle East and Europe
  • choreologist — a person who is expert in choreology
  • chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
  • chrome steel — any of various hard rust-resistant steels containing chromium
  • chronologies — Plural form of chronology.
  • chronologise — Alternative spelling of chronologize.
  • chronologize — to arrange in an order determined by when events took place
  • chrysomelids — Plural form of chrysomelid.
  • churchpeople — people belonging to a church
  • cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
  • cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
  • circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
  • circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
  • circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
  • citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
  • city college — an educational institution providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education in the US and Canada
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • clairvoyance — the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
  • clam chowder — chowder containing clams
  • clap eyes on — to catch sight of
  • clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
  • class method — (programming)   1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
  • class object — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • clayton fern — a tall fern, Osmunda claytoniana, of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having an interruption of growth in the center of some fronds.
  • clean a room — If you clean a room, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust.
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
  • cleidoic egg — egg of birds and insects
  • cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
  • cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
  • cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
  • clerestories — Plural form of clerestory.
  • clergyperson — a member of the clergy
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
  • clinozoisite — a monoclinic mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, a variety of epidote, dimorphous with zoisite.
  • clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
  • clitorectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure to remove all or part of the clitoris; female circumcision.
  • cloddishness — The quality of being cloddish.
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