12-letter words containing s, e, c, u, l, a
- fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- fujita scale — a scale for expressing the intensity of a tornado, ranging from F0 (light damage) to F5 (incredible damage)
- fused silica — glass made entirely from silica, having a very low rate of thermal expansion.
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gesticulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gesticulate.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- glaucescence — the state of having bluish green coloration
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- lake success — a town on Long Island, in SE New York: temporary United Nations headquarters 1946–51.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- lascaux cave — a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
- lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- marcellus ii — (Marcello Cervini) 1501–55, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555.
- mare clausum — a body of navigable water under the sole jurisdiction of a nation.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- matriculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of matriculate.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mercurialism — poisoning by mercury.
- mercurialist — a person born under the planet Mercury
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- mischanceful — unlucky