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Answer for the clue "Trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape ", 12 letters:
unwieldiness

Word definitions for unwieldiness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being unwieldy.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano" [syn: awkwardness , cumbersomeness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unwieldy \Un*wield"y\, a. Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. ``A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old.'' --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] -- Un*wield"i*ly , adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness , n.

Usage examples of unwieldiness.

Daily her absurd unwieldiness was exhibited to crowds screaming with laughter.

Yet the narrow-beamed Fuegian craft she was in would hold only four more occupants, and that with a certain risk and unwieldiness.

In the form in which I repeated it to myself it had not the right number of feet, but as I made no attempt to count them, between its unwieldiness and a classical line of poetry it seemed as though no common measure could exist.