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12-letter words containing e, n, l, o, c

  • rear echelon — (in a military operation) the troops, officers, etc., removed from the combat zone and responsible for administration, matériel, etc.
  • recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recollection — the act of re-collecting or the state of being re-collected.
  • reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
  • reconvalesce — to convalesce again
  • recreational — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
  • renounceable — of a nature that can be renounced
  • renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
  • rent control — government control over the amount of rent charged, as for housing.
  • reply coupon — a coupon sent with an international letter which can be exchanged for stamps sufficient to send a letter back in reply
  • reticulation — a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.
  • retinotectal — of or relating to the retina and the tectum
  • rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
  • ribbon cable — (hardware)   A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rodent ulcer — an ulcerating basal cell skin cancer, common on the face.
  • roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
  • roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
  • roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
  • roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
  • sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
  • scent bottle — a bottle of perfume
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
  • seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
  • second floor — the floor or story above the ground floor.
  • second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sectionalize — to render sectional.
  • selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
  • self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
  • self-command — self-control.
  • self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
  • self-concern — to relate to; be connected with; be of interest or importance to; affect: The water shortage concerns us all.
  • self-content — satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.
  • self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • semicolonial — partly colonial
  • senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
  • servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
  • sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
  • silicon glen — a collective term for the industries in Scotland associated with information technology, esp those concentrated in the central conurbation between Glasgow and Edinburgh
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