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12-letter words containing p, c, l

  • appeal court — An appeal court is the same as a Court of Appeal.
  • appendicular — relating to an appendage or appendicle
  • apple sucker — a small homopterous insect, Psyllia mali, originally of Europe, that is a serious pest of apple crops.
  • appleknocker — Northern U.S. a rustic.
  • applications — Plural form of application.
  • approachable — If you describe someone as approachable, you think that they are friendly and easy to talk to.
  • archesporial — the primitive cell, or group of cells, that give rise to the cells from which spores are derived.
  • archetypally — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
  • archetypical — Archetypical means the same as archetypal.
  • archipallium — (anatomy) The oldest region of the brain's pallium, often considered contiguous with the olfactory cortex, but varying among species. In humans, the archipallium makes up the hippocampus.
  • archipelagic — a large group or chain of islands: the Malay Archipelago.
  • archipelagos — Plural form of archipelago.
  • arctophilist — a collector of teddy bears
  • arena chapel — a private chapel in Padua containing a fresco cycle painted (1305–06) by Giotto.
  • asclepiadean — of or relating to a type of classical verse line consisting of a spondee, two or three choriambs, and an iamb
  • asphalt rock — a rock formation, usually of limestone or sandstone, containing large amounts of bitumens.
  • asymptotical — of or relating to an asymptote.
  • auspiciously — promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
  • autocomplete — a feature of a word processor, email program, web browser, etc., that automatically predicts the remaining characters in a word or phrase based on what has been typed or input before: If you supply the information, your browser will be able to use autocomplete to fill out online forms.
  • autoptically — in an autoptical manner
  • azcapotzalco — a city in central Mexico: suburb of Mexico City; a cultural center during the pre-Columbian period.
  • b lymphocyte — B cell.
  • b-lymphocyte — a type of lymphocyte, originating in bone marrow, that produces antibodies
  • b-s particle — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
  • bachelor pad — a flat in which a bachelor lives
  • bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
  • back-slapper — the practice of making a loud and effusive display of friendliness, cordiality, etc., as by slapping persons on the back.
  • backflipping — the process of reversing one's position
  • backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • backpedalled — (AU, NZ, British) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
  • backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backsplashes — Plural form of backsplash.
  • backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
  • balance pipe — a pipe between two points used to equalize pressure
  • bald cypress — a tree, Taxodium distichum, of swampy areas of the southern U.S., having featherlike needles and cone-shaped projections growing up from the roots, yielding a hardwood used in construction, shipbuilding, etc.
  • barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
  • baseball cap — A baseball cap is a close-fitting cap with a curved part at the front that sticks out above your eyes.
  • bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
  • battle clasp — clasp (def 4).
  • bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
  • bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
  • bibliophilic — pertaining to a bibliophile
  • bicarpellary — (of an ovary) having two carpels
  • bicycle clip — one of a pair of clips worn around the ankles by cyclists to keep the trousers tight and out of the chain
  • bicycle path — a path designed for bicyclists
  • bicycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
  • bicycle shop — a shop that sells and usually repairs bicycles and bicycle parts
  • bimorph cell — a piezoelectric transducer consisting of two crystals cemented together, used in microphones, headphones, loudspeakers, etc. to convert vibrations into a voltage output or to convert a signal voltage into vibrations that can produce audible sounds
  • biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
  • black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
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