10-letter words containing a, c, r, e, i
- cinderella — If you describe a person or organization as a Cinderella, you mean that they receive very little attention and that they deserve to receive more.
- cinemagoer — a person who attends the cinema
- cinerarium — a place for keeping the ashes of the dead after cremation
- cineration — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
- circensial — relating to the Roman circuses
- circulable — able to be circulated
- circulated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- circulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circulate.
- cirrigrade — moving by means of hairlike appendages
- cistercian — a member of a Christian order of monks and nuns founded in 1098, which follows an especially strict form of the Benedictine rule
- citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- civil year — calendar year
- clairseach — an ancient Irish and Scottish harp.
- clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
- clamdigger — One who digs for clams.
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- classifier — a person or thing that classifies.
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- clearfield — a town in N Utah.
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- clergiable — (of a criminal charge) able to be contested in a clerical rather than a secular court
- clerically — In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
- climateric — (obsolete) climatic.
- clip frame — a picture frame that is held together by clips attaching the glass to the backing
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- coal miner — A coal miner is a person whose job is mining coal.
- coarsening — Present participle of coarsen.
- coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- cocreation — Joint creation.
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commercial — Commercial means involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods.
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concertina — A concertina is a musical instrument consisting of two end pieces with stiff paper or cloth that folds up between them. You play the concertina by pressing the buttons on the end pieces while moving them together and apart.
- containers — Plural form of container.
- contraries — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
- cookie jar — a jar or other container for storing cookies.
- coordinate — If you coordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- copernican — of or relating to Copernicus or his theories.
- coradicate — (of multiple words) derived from the same root
- coral vine — a Mexican climbing vine, Antigonon leptopus, of the buckwheat family, having arrow- or heart-shaped leaves and pink or white flowers.
- corallines — Plural form of coralline.