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12-letter words containing l, a, c, r, o

  • boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
  • bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
  • box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
  • brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • camerapeople — a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or TV camera.
  • camphor ball — mothball
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
  • capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
  • carbocholine — carbachol.
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • 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
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • card catalog — a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.
  • cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
  • carisoprodol — a crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 12 H 24 N 2 O 4 , used as a muscle relaxant.
  • carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
  • carlovingian — Carolingian
  • 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
  • carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
  • carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
  • carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
  • cartological — relating to cartology
  • cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
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