12-letter words containing l, i, m, e
- claim-jumper — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clamjamphrie — rubbish
- clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
- clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
- clement viii — (Ippolito Aldobrandini) 1536–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1592–1605.
- clement xiii — (Carlo della Torre Rezzonico) 1693–1769, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1758–69.
- cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- climacterics — Plural form of climacteric.
- clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
- clitorectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure to remove all or part of the clitoris; female circumcision.
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- closing time — Closing time is the time when something such as a shop, library, or pub closes and people have to leave.
- clotrimazole — An antifungal medication used to treat humans and animals.
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- collectivism — Collectivism is the political belief that a country's industries and services should be owned and controlled by the state or by all the people in a country. Socialism and communism are both forms of collectivism.
- collegialism — the theory that the church's highest authority is its collective membership
- colorimeters — Plural form of colorimeter.
- colorimetric — a device that analyzes color by measuring a given color in terms of a standard color, a scale of colors, or certain primary colors.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
- come to life — If something or someone comes to life, they become active.
- comic relief — a comic interlude, or comic element, in a tragedy
- comma splice — comma fault.
- command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
- commensalism — a close association or union between two kinds of organisms, in which one is benefited by the relationship and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
- commercially — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
- commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- compellation — appellation
- compellative — an appellation
- compellingly — in a way that demands attention and interest
- compile time — (programming) The period of time during which a program's source code is being translated into machine code, as opposed to run time when the program is being executed. As well as the work done by the compiler, this may include macro preprocessing as done by cpp for example. The final stage of program construction, performed by the linker, would generally also be classed as compile time but might be distinguished as link time. For example, static data in a C program is allocated at compile time whereas non-static data is allocated at run time, typically on the stack.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- complaintive — Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- complections — Plural form of complection.
- complexation — the formation of a complex
- complexified — Simple past tense and past participle of complexify.
- complexifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complexify.
- complexional — Relating to complexion.
- complexioned — of a specified complexion
- complexities — The complexities of something are the many complicated factors involved in it.