11-letter words containing l, u, r, c
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- cloud cover — the state of the sky when it is covered with cloud
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- club member — a person who is a member of a club
- 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.
- coal cutter — a machine for undercutting a coal seam
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
- cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- collocutory — of or relating to dialogue
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- collutorium — collutory.
- color guard — the persons carrying and escorting the colors (flag) in a parade, ceremony, etc.
- coloraturas — Plural form of coloratura.
- colour code — a system of easily distinguishable colours, as for the identification of electrical wires or resistors
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
- colouration — (British spelling) alternative spelling of coloration.
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- colourfully — Alternative spelling of colorfully.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniform — Having the form of a column.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- compulsitor — a thing, such as a mandate, that compels
- concolorous — concolor
- congruently — agreeing; accordant; congruous.
- congruously — In a congruous manner.
- conjectural — A statement that is conjectural is based on information that is not certain or complete.
- conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
- construable — that can be construed
- contractual — A contractual arrangement or relationship involves a legal agreement between people.
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- coral trout — an Australian fish, Plectropomus maculatus, of the Great Barrier Reef which is an important food fish
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.