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12-letter words containing r, c, o, l

  • temper color — any of the colors appearing on the surface of clean, unoxidized steel heated in air, from pale yellow at the coolest to dark blue at the hottest: used as an approximate indication of temperature.
  • thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • theocratical — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
  • thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
  • thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
  • thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
  • thoracically — by way of the thorax; in the thorax
  • three-colour — of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours
  • thrombolytic — the dissolving or breaking up of a thrombus.
  • thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
  • tick trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and jointed pods with hooked hairs by which they adhere to objects.
  • tickler coil — the coil by which the plate circuit of a vacuum tube is inductively coupled with the grid circuit in the process of regeneration.
  • tone cluster — a group of adjacent notes played on a keyboard instrument typically with the fist, forearm, or elbow, similar groupings also occurring in orchestral music.
  • tone control — a manual control used to adjust the relative responses of an amplifier to high, low, and intermediate audio frequencies.
  • torchon lace — a bobbin-made linen or cotton lace with loosely twisted threads in simple, open patterns.
  • total recall — the ability to remember with complete, detailed accuracy.
  • tow-coloured — pale yellow; flaxen
  • trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
  • tractor pull — a contest in which tractors compete to pull the heaviest load.
  • trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
  • tragicomical — a dramatic or other literary composition combining elements of both tragedy and comedy.
  • tralaticious — transferred or passed down
  • tredecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 42 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 78 zeros.
  • trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
  • triacontanol — a long-chain alcohol, CH 3 (CH 2) 28 CH 2 OH, occurring in plant waxes and beeswax, that is a plant growth regulator.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • tribological — relating to tribology
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • trichinopoly — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
  • trichologist — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trimolecular — pertaining to or having three molecules.
  • triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.
  • trochelminth — any invertebrate of the phylum Trochelminthes (now usually broken up into several phyla), comprising the rotifers, gastrotrichs, and several other forms.
  • trophy child — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
  • tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
  • trucial oman — a former name of United Arab Emirates.
  • true colours — If you see someone in their true colours or if they show their true colours, you realize what they are really like.
  • trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
  • tuberculosed — tuberculous
  • tuberculosis — an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
  • turbo pascal — (language, product)   Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
  • two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
  • ultracompact — extremely compact, esp of technology that is much smaller than a standard model
  • un-revocable — that may be revoked.
  • uncalled for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
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