11-letter words containing c, o, u, l, r
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
- hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature
- incorruptly — Without corruption.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- inculcatory — inculcating by nature, characterized by a tendency to inculcate
- inculpatory — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- incuriously — In an incurious manner.
- inoculatory — relating to inoculation
- intercouple — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- intercupola — the space between an inner and an outer dome.
- interocular — being, or situated, between the eyes.
- intraocular — located or occurring within or administered through the eye.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- latrocinium — highway robbery
- lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- leucocratic — (of a rock) composed mainly of light-colored minerals.
- leucodermia — leucoderma
- leucorrhoea — a white or yellowish discharge of mucous material from the vagina, often an indication of infection
- local group — the group of galaxies, at least 25 of which are known, that includes the Milky Way.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- locutionary — pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener.
- loose scrum — a play in which a bunch of players gather around an opponent's dropped ball and then attempt to gain possession of the ball.
- lotusscript — (language) A Visual BASIC-like scripting language for Lotus Notes and Lotus SmartSuite. LotusScript is object-oriented and can be used for complex Notes programming, although Java is also available.
- loupcervier — the Canada lynx.
- low-country — Often, Low-Country. of or relating to the Low Countries.
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- ludicrously — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- luteotropic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- micronuclei — Plural form of micronucleus.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.