12-letter words containing d, u, l, c, o
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- electrocuted — Simple past tense and past participle of electrocute.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- four old cat — three old cat played with four batters.
- funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
- 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.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- ground color — Also called ground coat. a primary coat of paint; priming; base coat.
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- hydrofluoric — of or derived from hydrofluoric acid.
- inconcluding — (obsolete) Inferring no consequence.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- ionic liquid — An ionic liquid is a liquid which contains ions.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- microfluidic — Of, pertaining to, or using microfluidics.
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
- multicolored — of several or many colors.
- multiproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- nonnucleated — having no nucleus
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- oil producer — a country with reserves of oil
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overcoloured — excessively coloured
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.