12-letter words containing c, o, n, t, r, l
- declinometer — an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
- decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
- decontrolled — Simple past tense and past participle of decontrol.
- deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
- derelictions — Plural form of dereliction.
- dilaceration — the act of dilacerating.
- discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
- discretional — discretionary.
- dual-control — having dual controls
- 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.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- efflorescent — efflorescing; blossoming.
- electioneers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electioneer.
- electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
- electrogenic — Pf or pertaining to electrogenesis.
- electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
- electronical — (rare) electronic.
- electronvolt — (physics) alternative spelling of electron volt.
- electrophone — (music) any instrument designed to create sounds using electrical currents.
- electrosonde — a sonde that measures the electric potential in the atmosphere
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
- enteroclysis — A fluoroscopic X-ray of the small intestine.
- enterococcal — Relating to, or produced by, an enterococcus.
- enterocoeles — Plural form of enterocoele.
- enterocoelic — characterized by enterocoele
- entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
- fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
- flow control — (communications, protocol) The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- fm cyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
- fort collins — a city in N Colorado.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- frictionally — In terms of friction.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- geocentrical — Alternative form of geocentric.
- gerontologic — relating to gerontology
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.