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

  • bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • boudin blanc — a boiled sausage made with light-colored meat, as veal or chicken, and without blood
  • bouillon cup — a small, bowl-shaped vessel, with two handles, in which bouillon is served.
  • bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
  • bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
  • cacophonical — cacophonous
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • calculations — Plural form of calculation.
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • caliginosity — darkness
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
  • calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
  • calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
  • canalisation — The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
  • canalization — the act of canalizing
  • cancellation — the fact or an instance of cancelling
  • cancelpoodle — (messaging)   (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
  • canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
  • canola (oil) — an oil derived from the seed of any of several varieties of the rape plant, used in cooking, salad dressings, etc.: it is low in saturated fats
  • canonicalise — (transitive, computing, UK) Alternative form of canonicalize.
  • canonicalize — (transitive, computing) To convert (data) into canonical form.
  • cantillation — the traditional notation representing the various traditional Jewish melodies to which scriptural passages are chanted
  • cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
  • canton linen — a fabric made from tough vegetable fibers, used for table linens, wall coverings, etc.
  • capitulation — the act of capitulating
  • carbocholine — carbachol.
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
  • 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
  • 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
  • cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
  • cash journal — cashbook.
  • cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
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