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12-letter words containing r, u, n, c, l

  • country folk — people who live in the country
  • country lane — a narrow country road, often bordered by hedges
  • country life — life in the country
  • country mile — a long way
  • county clerk — a senior local government official
  • court ruling — a decision made by a court
  • craniocaudal — (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.
  • crassulacean — as in crassulacean acid metabolism, a method of photosynthesis
  • crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
  • croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
  • cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
  • curelessness — The state or quality of being cureless.
  • curling iron — A curling iron is a metal device, resembling scissors, that you heat and use to form curls in your hair.
  • curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
  • currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
  • curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
  • curtain call — In a theatre, when actors or performers take a curtain call, they come forward to the front of the stage after a performance in order to receive the applause of the audience.
  • curtain line — the last line of a scene, act, etc., as in a play; tag line.
  • curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
  • curtain rail — a rail from which a curtain is hung
  • curtain wall — a non-load-bearing external wall attached to a framed structure, often one that is prefabricated
  • cycle crunch — (jargon)   A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to time-sharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier since the mid-1980s, so much so that the very term "cycle crunch" now has a faintly archaic flavour; most hackers now use workstations or personal computers as opposed to traditional time-sharing systems.
  • cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
  • declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
  • decluttering — Present participle of declutter.
  • deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
  • denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
  • double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
  • dual-control — having dual controls
  • ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
  • edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
  • edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
  • electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
  • electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
  • electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
  • elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
  • elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
  • enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
  • endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
  • exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
  • extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
  • exulceration — the process of ulceration
  • flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
  • fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
  • fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
  • fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
  • fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
  • forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
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