12-letter words containing i, l, c
- audiological — Of, or pertaining to, audiology, or the study of hearing.
- auscultating — Present participle of auscultate.
- auscultation — the diagnostic technique in medicine of listening to the various internal sounds made by the body, usually with the aid of a stethoscope
- auspiciously — promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
- autarkically — In an autarkic way.
- autistically — in an autistic manner or the manner of a person who has autism
- autocratical — Autocratic.
- autoeciously — in an autoecious manner
- autoptically — in an autoptical manner
- avariciously — characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
- avascularity — the condition of having few blood vessels or of being without blood vessels
- aviculturist — A person who keeps and rears (breeds) birds.
- avuncularity — the condition of being an uncle
- b-s particle — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- bacchanalian — characterized by or involving drunken revelry
- bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- back molding — a molding, as a backband, applied to interior window and door trim to conceal the edge of the wall surface.
- backflipping — the process of reversing one's position
- backlighting — Movies, Television. a light source placed behind an actor, object, or scene to create a highlight that separates the subject from the background.
- backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
- backslashing — Present participle of backslash.
- backsolution — The process or result of backsolving.
- backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
- bacon-slicer — a machine for cutting bacon into slices
- bactericidal — any substance capable of killing bacteria.
- bacteriology — Bacteriology is the science and the study of bacteria.
- bahia blanca — a port in E Argentina. Pop: 276 000 (2005 est)
- balance pipe — a pipe between two points used to equalize pressure
- balinese cat — a breed of cat with medium-length silky hair, a plumed tail, blue eyes, large ears, and a dark mask, tail, and paws
- ball-carrier — the offensive player having the ball and attempting to gain ground.
- balletically — in a balletic fashion; gracefully
- balto-slavic — the Baltic and Slavic languages, when considered as constituting a subfamily within the Indo-European family of languages: the Baltic and Slavic branches are now generally considered by scholars as independently derived from Indo-European
- baluchithere — a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
- barbarically — without civilizing influences; uncivilized; primitive: barbaric invaders.
- barometrical — (archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
- barrack life — the experiences, activities, etc that are characteristic of a soldier's time spent dwelling in a barracks
- barrel chair — a kind of upholstered chair with an upright, rounded back
- basic jovial — (language) A subset of JOVIAL written ca. 1965.
- basic salary — base pay.
- basilic vein — a large vein situated on the inner side of the arm
- bathetically — in a bathetic fashion
- bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
- battological — tending to repeat words unnecessarily
- beacon light — a light signal for shipping
- beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
- beatifically — bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
- bed-blocking — the use of hospital beds by elderly patients who cannot leave hospital because they have no place in a residential care home
- bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
- belligerence — the act or quality of being belligerent or warlike; aggressiveness