12-letter words containing cl
- proclamation — something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proctoclysis — the slow, continuous introduction of a solution into the rectum to improve fluid intake.
- proper class — a class which cannot itself be a member of other classes
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.
- pudding club — the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club)
- quartz clock — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
- queen closer — a brick of normal length and thickness but of half normal width, used to complete a course or to space regular bricks.
- quitclaiming — Present participle of quitclaim.
- radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- rock climber — sb who scales mountains
- roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
- root climber — a plant that clings to a surface and climbs by means of adventitious roots, as the ivy, Hedera helix.
- san clemente — a town in S California.
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- sclerophylly — the normal development of much sclerenchyma in the leaves of certain plants, as some desert plants, resulting in thickened, hardened foliage that resists loss of moisture.
- scott-closed — A set S, a subset of D, is Scott-closed if (1) If Y is a subset of S and Y is directed then lub Y is in S and (2) If y <= s in S then y is in S. I.e. a Scott-closed set contains the lubs of its directed subsets and anything less than any element. (2) says that S is downward closed (or left closed). ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
- seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
- second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
- self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
- senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
- service club — any of several organizations dedicated to the growth and general welfare of its members and the community.
- small circle — a circle on a sphere, the plane of which does not pass through the center of the sphere. Compare great circle (def 1).
- smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
- social class — a broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status.
- sonnet cycle — a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- sothic cycle — (in the ancient Egyptian calendar) a period of 1460 Sothic years.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- star cluster — a number of stars of common origin held together as a group by gravitational attraction. Compare globular cluster, open cluster, stellar association.
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- static cling — the adhering of clothing to other clothing or a person's body, caused by an accumulation of static electricity in the materials, especially those containing synthetic fibers.
- stone circle — a circle of standing stones erected in prehistoric times
- supercluster — a cluster of open clusters.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- synclinorium — a regional structure of general synclinal form that includes a series of smaller folds.
- tau particle — an unstable, negatively charged lepton with a mass of c. 1,777 MeV/c2 (or c. 3,490 times that of an electron) and a mean lifetime of 2.2 ×10-13 second
- tetracycline — an antibiotic, C 22 H 24 H 2 O 8 , derived from chlortetracycline, used in medicine to treat a broad variety of infections.
- the classics — a body of literature regarded as great or lasting, esp that of ancient Greece or Rome
- themistocles — 527?–460? b.c, Athenian statesman.
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- thick client — a computer having its own hard drive, as opposed to one on a network where most functions are carried out on a central server
- thundercloud — cumulonimbus.