11-letter words containing c, o, r, e, l, s
- false color — photography using infrared-sensitive film that produces images in which heat-emitting areas or objects appear red.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- florescence — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
- footlockers — Plural form of footlocker.
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
- forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- foreclosure — the act of foreclosing a mortgage or pledge.
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- goal crease — crease1 (def 4).
- goal scorer — somebody who scores goals
- goalscorers — Plural form of goalscorer.
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- intercostal — pertaining to muscles, parts, or intervals between the ribs.
- interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
- intersocial — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- isoelectric — of, relating to, or having the same electric potential.
- isometrical — Dated form of isometric.
- isospectral — (mathematics) Having the same spectrum.
- kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
- king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
- kleptocrats — Plural form of kleptocrat.
- lacerations — Plural form of laceration.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactometers — Plural form of lactometer.
- laparoscope — a flexible fiberoptic instrument, passed through a small incision in the abdominal wall and equipped with biopsy forceps, an obturator, scissors or the like, with which to examine the abdominal cavity or perform minor surgery.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.