12-letter words containing e, l, i, p
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
- comma splice — comma fault.
- compellation — appellation
- compellative — an appellation
- compellingly — in a way that demands attention and interest
- compile time — (programming) The period of time during which a program's source code is being translated into machine code, as opposed to run time when the program is being executed. As well as the work done by the compiler, this may include macro preprocessing as done by cpp for example. The final stage of program construction, performed by the linker, would generally also be classed as compile time but might be distinguished as link time. For example, static data in a C program is allocated at compile time whereas non-static data is allocated at run time, typically on the stack.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- complaintive — Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- complections — Plural form of complection.
- complexation — the formation of a complex
- complexified — Simple past tense and past participle of complexify.
- complexifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complexify.
- complexional — Relating to complexion.
- complexioned — of a specified complexion
- complexities — The complexities of something are the many complicated factors involved in it.
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complicative — having a tendency to complicate
- complicities — Plural form of complicity.
- complimental — complimentary
- complimented — Simple past tense and past participle of compliment.
- complimenter — a person who compliments
- componential — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- compressible — If something is compressible, its volume can change when pressure is applied to it.
- compulsative — compulsory
- compulsively — compelling; compulsory.
- compulsories — Plural form of compulsory.
- computerlike — similar to a computer
- conceptional — the act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- contemptible — If you feel that someone or something is contemptible, you feel strong dislike and disrespect for them.
- contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
- copolymerise — Alt form copolymerize.
- copolymerize — to react (two compounds) together to produce a copolymer
- corporealism — materialism
- corporealist — a materialist
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- corporealize — to make corporeal
- corruptively — In a corruptive way.
- cosmopolises — Plural form of cosmopolis.
- cosmopolites — Plural form of cosmopolite.
- coulter pine — a California pine, Pinus coulteri, having stout, bluish-green needles and heavy cones 9 to 14 inches (23 to 36 cm) long.
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.