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12-letter words containing e, y, l

  • blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
  • body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
  • bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
  • brambleberry — the fruit of a bramble.
  • breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
  • breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • bumble-puppy — a game in which a ball, attached by string to a post, is hit so that the string winds round the post
  • bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • butyl rubber — a copolymer of isobutene and isoprene, used in tyres and as a waterproofing material
  • by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • by deed poll — In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally.
  • by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
  • by wholesale — at wholesale
  • bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • calculatedly — in a calculated manner
  • calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • call-by-need — (reduction)   A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • calvin cycle — a series of reactions, occurring during photosynthesis, in which glucose is synthesized from carbon dioxide
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • calycoideous — calycoid
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
  • caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
  • capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
  • capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
  • carbamylurea — biuret.
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
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