12-letter words containing l, y
- country mile — a long way
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- courtly love — a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- crape myrtle — an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- cross volley — (in tennis) a volley across the court
- crossability — the quality of being crossable
- crown colony — a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown
- cruelty-free — (of a cosmetic or other product) developed without being tested on animals
- crumble away — disintegrate
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptanalyst — the procedures, processes, methods, etc., used to translate or interpret secret writings, as codes and ciphers, for which the key is unknown.
- cryptanalyze — to study (a cryptogram) for the purpose of discovering the clear meaning; break (a code, cipher, etc.).
- cryptococcal — of, relating to, or caused by the Cryptococcus neoformans fungus
- cryptolocker — (security) The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- crystal ball — If you say that someone, especially an expert, looks into a crystal ball, you mean that they are trying to predict the future. Crystal balls are traditionally used by fortune-tellers.
- crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
- crystal lake — a town in NE Illinois.
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- crystalising — Present participle of crystalise.
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallites — Plural form of crystallite.
- crystallitis — the formation of a crystallite or crystallites
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystallizer — A crystallizer is a vessel or stage in which a crystal grows from a liquid.
- crystallizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystallize.
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cyberculture — a unique set of habits, values, and other elements of culture that have evolved from the use of computers and the Internet.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybernetical — of or relating to cybernetics
- cyberreality — A reality created in cyberspace.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cyclandelate — a medicine for relaxing smooth muscle and encouraging blood cell dilation
- cycle crunch — (jargon) A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to time-sharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier since the mid-1980s, so much so that the very term "cycle crunch" now has a faintly archaic flavour; most hackers now use workstations or personal computers as opposed to traditional time-sharing systems.
- cycle helmet — a protective helmet worn by cyclists to prevent head injuries
- cycle server — (jargon) A powerful computer that exists primarily for running large batch jobs. The term implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations.
- cyclic shift — a transfer of digits from one end of a machine word to the other, retaining the same order in both places.
- cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.