12-letter words containing l, a, m, o, u
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
- come-all-you — a street ballad, especially in England.
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- compulsative — compulsory
- compulsatory — compulsory
- computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.
- connubialism — the state of being married
- consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- coram populo — in the presence of the people; publicly
- costume ball — a fancy dress ball
- councilmanic — of or relating to a councilman or councilwoman
- councilwoman — A councilwoman is a woman who is a member of a local council.
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- culminations — The highest or climactic point of something, esp. as attained after a long time.
- custodialism — of or relating to custody.
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demodulation — the act or process by which an output wave or signal is obtained having the characteristics of the original modulating wave or signal; the reverse of modulation
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- double album — a commercial recording sold on two CDs or LPs
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double modal — a syntactic construction in which two modal auxiliaries occur consecutively within a clause, as might could in I might could help you.
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- exophthalmus — Alt form exophthalmos.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flammulation — a small flame-shaped marking, esp those seen on some birds
- flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- 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?
- formula milk — An artificial substitute for breast milk intended for feeding infants. It can come in powdered form to be mixed with water or in instant liquid form.
- formula unit — (of an ionic compound that does not form molecules, as most salts) the chemical formula with the least number of elements out of the set of empirical formulas having the same proportion of ions as elements: NaCl is the formula unit for the ionic compound sodium chloride.
- formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
- formularizer — One who formularizes.