12-letter words containing c, u, r, e, a, l
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- internuncial — serving to announce or connect.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- lacquer tree — any of several trees yielding a resin used as lacquer, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- lake lucerne — a lake in central Switzerland: fed and drained chiefly by the River Reuss. Area: 115 sq km (44 sq miles)
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- lecture hall — conference room
- lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
- lenticularly — in a lenticular manner
- lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- macroculture — The dominant culture in a society, its overculture.