12-letter words containing c, o, l, r, i
- bimorph cell — a piezoelectric transducer consisting of two crystals cemented together, used in microphones, headphones, loudspeakers, etc. to convert vibrations into a voltage output or to convert a signal voltage into vibrations that can produce audible sounds
- binary color — secondary color.
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- binocularity — binocular characteristics
- biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
- black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
- black liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the liquor that remains after digestion.
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- calorie-free — containing no calories
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
- 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.
- carlovingian — Carolingian
- 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.
- cartological — relating to cartology
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- cavo-relievo — a relief sculpture in which the highest point in the carving is below the level of the original surface
- cecil rhodes — Cecil John, 1853–1902, English colonial capitalist and government administrator in southern Africa.
- ceiling rose — decorative plaster centrepiece
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celtic cross — a Latin cross with a broad ring surrounding the point of intersection
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- channel iron — a rolled-steel bar with a U-shaped cross section