12-letter words containing c, o, u, l
- 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.
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- duodecennial — relating to twelve years
- duodecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 39 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 72 zeros.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch clover — white clover.
- earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- 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
- electrocuted — Simple past tense and past participle of electrocute.
- electrocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrocute.
- electrofluor — a transparent material that stores electrical energy and subsequently releases it as light
- 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
- 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.
- elocutionist — Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equinoctials — Plural form of equinoctial.
- equipollence — The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- etymologicum — an etymological dictionary
- eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
- exclusionist — Acting to shut out or bar someone from a place, group, or privilege.
- exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
- exclusive or — (logic) (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person