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11-letter words containing l, c

  • clove hitch — a knot or hitch used for securing a rope to a spar, post, or larger rope
  • cloven foot — a foot divided by a cleft, as in the ox, deer, and sheep
  • cloven hoof — Animals that have cloven hooves have feet that are divided into two parts. Cows, sheep, and goats have cloven hooves.
  • clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
  • cloxacillin — a semisynthetic penicillin used to treat staphylococcal infections due to penicillin-resistant organisms
  • clp(sigma*) — (language)   A constraint logic programming language with regular sets.
  • club fungus — basidiomycete
  • club member — a person who is a member of a club
  • club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
  • clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
  • cluj-napoca — city in Transylvania, NW Romania: pop. 322,000
  • cluster cup — aecium.
  • cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
  • cluster leg — a leg having the form of a cluster of columns or shafts.
  • clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
  • clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
  • cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
  • co-location — (networking)   /koh'loh-kay`sh*n/ or /koh`loh-kay'sh*n/ (Or "colocation") Providing network connections such as Internet leased lines to several servers housed together in a server room. This is typically provided as a commercial service. The hyphenated form is correct and the most common on the web, followed by "colocation". "collocation" (/ko`loh-kay'sh*n/, not /koh'-/), is an old word with a similar meaning. It is common in dictionaries and follows the pattern of other Latin-derived words like collect, college, and collate, but is least common on the web. The verbal form is "to colocate" or "co-locate" (commonly /koh'loh`kayt/, also (US) /koh`loh'kayt/).
  • co-relation — correlation
  • coach class — the US and Canad. name for economy class
  • coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
  • coagulating — Present participle of coagulate.
  • coagulation — Coagulation is the process of changing from a liquid to a gel or solid, for example, the process that results in the formation of a blood clot.
  • coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
  • coal cellar — an underground room used for the storage of coal
  • coal cutter — a machine for undercutting a coal seam
  • coal heaver — a workman who moves coal
  • coal mining — the act, process, or industry of extracting coal from the earth
  • coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
  • coalescence — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
  • coalignment — Alignment together.
  • coalitional — a combination or alliance, especially a temporary one between persons, factions, states, etc.
  • coast pilot — Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
  • coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
  • coatesville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
  • cobalt bomb — a cobalt-60 device used in radiotherapy
  • cobblestone — Cobblestones are stones with a rounded upper surface which used to be used for making streets.
  • cocelebrant — One of two or more celebrants involved with the same occasion.
  • cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
  • cockblocker — Agent noun of cockblock: one who cockblocks.
  • cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
  • cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
  • cocktailing — any of various short mixed drinks, consisting typically of gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, or brandy, with different admixtures, as vermouth, fruit juices, or flavorings, usually chilled and frequently sweetened.
  • coconut oil — the fatty oil obtained from the meat of the coconut and used for making soap, cosmetics, etc
  • cocos plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the oceanic Guatemala Basin, and bounded on the north and east by the Central American Trench, on the west by the East Pacific Rise, and on the south by the Nazca Plate.
  • cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
  • code letter — a letter which is part of a code
  • code police — (humour)   (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
  • codeveloper — a fellow developer
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