12-letter words containing l, a, c, m, r
- conglomerate — A conglomerate is a large business firm consisting of several different companies.
- contemplator — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- coram populo — in the presence of the people; publicly
- corporealism — materialism
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- crape myrtle — an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
- crash helmet — A crash helmet is a helmet that motorcyclists wear in order to protect their heads if they have an accident.
- criminal law — the body of law dealing with the constitution of offences and the punishment of offenders
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- democratical — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- dramatically — of or relating to the drama.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- enharmonical — relating to the enharmonic scale
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
- galactometer — a lactometer.
- gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
- glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
- gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- horometrical — Relating to horometry.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- ian maclaren — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- imidacloprid — The insecticide 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine used to control fleas in domestic pets.
- immoralistic — (somewhat, rare) Of or relating to immoralism.
- imparticular — (proscribed) in particular.