12-letter words containing l, e, a, d, r, c
- landed price — the price when delivered
- lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- leader cable — a submarine cable laid along a channel and emitting signals that a vessel can follow when visibility is poor.
- lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
- lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
- matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
- medical care — the professional attention of medical practitioners
- medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
- meter-candle — lux. Abbreviation: mc.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- octahedrally — in an octahedral manner
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- para-medical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- pedicellaria — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
- place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
- procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
- procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
- radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
- ravioli code — (jargon, humour) Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
- re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- recalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- recirculated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- record label — recorded music production company
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area