12-letter words containing c, o, l, e, d, u
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- 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 piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
- double scull — a racing shell in which two scullers sit one behind the other and pull two oars each
- 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.
- double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
- double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
- 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.
- duodecennial — relating to twelve years
- duodecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 39 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 72 zeros.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch clover — white clover.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- electrocuted — Simple past tense and past participle of electrocute.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
- multicolored — of several or many colors.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- nonnucleated — having no nucleus
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.