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12-letter words containing n, a, p, l

  • cancelpoodle — (messaging)   (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
  • candied peel — fruit skin which has been impregnated or encrusted with sugar or syrup, esp that of citrus fruits
  • capital gain — the amount by which the selling price of a financial asset exceeds its cost
  • capitalising — Present participle of capitalise.
  • capitalizing — Present participle of capitalize.
  • capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
  • capitulation — the act of capitulating
  • cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
  • carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • centuplicate — to increase 100 times
  • channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
  • chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
  • chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
  • chilpancingo — a town in S Mexico, capital of Guerrero state, in the Sierra Madre del Sur. Pop: 166 000 (2005 est)
  • chrysophanol — (organic compound) A chemical compound found in rhubarb.
  • cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
  • clap eyes on — to catch sight of
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • clonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
  • coconut palm — A coconut palm is a tall tree on which coconuts grow.
  • coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
  • collar point — a point midway between the heart point and top of an escutcheon.
  • common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
  • commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.
  • compellation — appellation
  • compilations — Plural form of compilation.
  • compiliation — Misspelling of compilation.
  • 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.
  • complainants — Plural form of complainant.
  • complainings — complaints
  • complaintive — Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
  • complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
  • complanation — the act of flattening or making level
  • complemental — complementary; completing.
  • complexation — the formation of a complex
  • complexional — Relating to complexion.
  • compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
  • complicating — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
  • complication — A complication is a problem or difficulty that makes a situation harder to deal with.
  • complimental — complimentary
  • componential — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • conceptional — the act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
  • conceptually — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
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