12-letter words containing c, o, r, e, l
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
- black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
- black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
- block letter — a plain capital letter
- bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
- blue succory — a composite garden plant, Catananche caerulea, of southern Europe, having very hairy leaves and blue flower heads, used by the ancients as a love potion.
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
- box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- breeze block — a cinder block.
- breeze-block — A breeze-block is a large, grey brick made from ashes and cement.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
- 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
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- calcareously — in a calcareous manner
- caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
- calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
- calorie-free — containing no calories
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
- cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- camerapeople — a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or TV camera.
- candleholder — a candlestick
- cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
- cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- 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
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- 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