12-letter words containing p, o, l, t, r
- chromatophil — Also, chromatophilic, chromatophilous [kroh-muh-tof-uh-luh s] /ˌkroʊ məˈtɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA). chromophil (def 1).
- chromoplasts — Plural form of chromoplast.
- clothes prop — a long wooden pole with a forked end, used to raise a line of washing to enable it to catch the breeze
- clothespress — a closet, wardrobe, or chest in which to keep clothes
- coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
- coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
- coleopterous — belonging to the order Coleoptera
- collar point — a point midway between the heart point and top of an escutcheon.
- colour depth — bits per pixel
- complementer — something that completes or makes perfect: A good wine is a complement to a good meal.
- complimenter — a person who compliments
- comptrollers — Plural form of comptroller.
- compulsatory — compulsory
- computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.
- computerless — having no computer
- computerlike — similar to a computer
- contemplator — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- contrapuntal — characterized by counterpoint
- control loop — A control loop is a series of control operations, including measuring an output, establishing what the output should be, and taking action to correct it.
- copperplates — Plural form of copperplate.
- corporealist — a materialist
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- corruptively — In a corruptive way.
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- coulter pine — a California pine, Pinus coulteri, having stout, bluish-green needles and heavy cones 9 to 14 inches (23 to 36 cm) long.
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- counterplots — Plural form of counterplot.
- counterreply — a reply made in response to a reply; rejoinder.
- counterspell — a spell or charm which acts against another spell, esp in fantasy or role-playing games
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- 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.
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- dipropellant — bipropellant.
- drop initial — inset initial.
- electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
- electrophile — (chemistry) a compound or functional group that is attractive to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond.
- electrophone — (music) any instrument designed to create sounds using electrical currents.
- electrophori — Plural form of electrophorus.
- electroplate — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
- electropolar — having, or relating to, electrical polarity
- electroscope — An instrument for detecting and measuring electricity, especially as an indication of the ionization of air by radioactivity.
- electrotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of electrotype.