12-letter words containing m, e, l, o
- combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
- come to life — If something or someone comes to life, they become active.
- come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- come-all-you — a street ballad, especially in England.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- comic relief — a comic interlude, or comic element, in a tragedy
- comma splice — comma fault.
- command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
- commemorable — worthy of being commemorated
- 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
- common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
- commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.
- commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- 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.
- complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- 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.
- complemental — complementary; completing.
- complemented — having a complement or complements.
- complementer — something that completes or makes perfect: A good wine is a complement to a good meal.
- completement — (obsolete) Act of completing or perfecting; completion.
- completeness — complete
- complex salt — a salt that contains one or more complex ions
- complex wave — a waveform consisting of a fundamental frequency with superimposed harmonics
- 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.
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complicative — having a tendency to complicate
- complicities — Plural form of complicity.
- complimental — complimentary
- complimented — Simple past tense and past participle of compliment.
- complimenter — a person who compliments
- componential — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- compressedly — in a compressed manner