12-letter words containing lo
- cottage loaf — A cottage loaf is a loaf of bread which has a smaller round part on top of a larger round part.
- couette flow — the flow of a fluid between two surfaces that have tangential relative motion, as of a liquid between two coaxial cylinders that have different angular velocities.
- counterplots — Plural form of counterplot.
- couple-close — Heraldry. a narrow chevron, one-quarter the usual breadth.
- courtly love — a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady
- covert cloth — a twill-weave cotton or worsted suiting fabric
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- craniologist — the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
- crepusculous — Alternative form of crepuscular.
- cross colour — distortion in a colour television receiver in which high-frequency luminance detail is interpreted as colour information and reproduced as flashes of spurious colour
- crown colony — a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown
- 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
- 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.
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.
- cuckoo clock — A cuckoo clock is a clock with a door from which a toy cuckoo comes out and makes noises like a cuckoo every hour or half hour.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- cumulocirrus — a cloud that shares charracteristics of cumulus and cirrus clouds
- cumulonimbus — Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud, similar to cumulus, that extends to a great height and is associated with thunderstorms.
- currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cyclodextrin — any of a group of cyclic oligosaccharides found in starch digests of certain bacteria
- cyclogenesis — the formation and development of a low-pressure storm system
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- cyclohexanol — (organic compound) The alicyclic alcohol derived from cyclohexane by replacement of a hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group.
- cyclolignane — (organic chemistry) Any lignane having an additional ring.
- cyclopentane — a colourless insoluble cycloalkane found in petroleum and used mainly as a solvent. Formula: C5H10
- cyclopropane — a colourless flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, used in medicine as an anaesthetic; trimethylene. It is a cycloalkane with molecules containing rings of three carbon atoms. Formula: C3H6; boiling pt: –34°C
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- cyclostomate — having a round mouth
- cyclostomous — of or relating to a cyclostome
- cyclostyling — Present participle of cyclostyle.
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- dactyliology — the study of finger-rings
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- dactylozooid — (zoology) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora with an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- data logging — (data) (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted by a digital to analog converter (DAC) into a binary number. Data logging hardware may have several DACs for multiple simultaneous measurements. The hardware usually connects to a parallel port, serial port or USB port on a PC.
- de dolo malo — with evil intention; with intent to defraud.
- deallocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- decolonizing — Present participle of decolonize.
- decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
- dedolomitize — to transform (dolomite or dolomitic limestone) by separating the dolomite into calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate.
- deep ecology — a radical environmental movement and philosophy that regards humans as equal to other organisms within the global ecosystem.
- deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.