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12-letter words containing l, a, p, o, r

  • ballad opera — an opera consisting of popular tunes to which appropriate words have been set, interspersed with spoken dialogue
  • ballot paper — A ballot paper is a piece of paper on which you indicate your choice or opinion in an election or ballot.
  • barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
  • battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
  • beer parlour — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc in which beer is served
  • benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
  • bibliography — A bibliography is a list of books on a particular subject.
  • biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
  • bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
  • black copper — a regulus of 95-percent-pure copper, produced in a blast furnace by smelting oxidized copper ores.
  • black poplar — a Eurasian tree, Populus nigra
  • black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
  • blastosphere — blastula
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • camerapeople — a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or TV camera.
  • camphor ball — mothball
  • cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
  • capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • carisoprodol — a crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 12 H 24 N 2 O 4 , used as a muscle relaxant.
  • carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
  • catastrophal — (rare) Catastrophic.
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
  • cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
  • ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
  • chalcography — the art of engraving on copper or brass
  • chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
  • channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
  • chartophylax — an official who serves chiefly as the chancellor and archivist of a diocese.
  • chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
  • chloroplasts — Plural form of chloroplast.
  • chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
  • chromatophil — Also, chromatophilic, chromatophilous [kroh-muh-tof-uh-luh s] /ˌkroʊ məˈtɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA). chromophil (def 1).
  • chromophilia — the property of staining readily.
  • chromoplasts — Plural form of chromoplast.
  • chrysophanol — (organic compound) A chemical compound found in rhubarb.
  • cladocarpous — pleurocarpous.
  • cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
  • collar point — a point midway between the heart point and top of an escutcheon.
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