11-letter words containing a, e, c, i, u
- centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
- centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
- charcuterie — cooked cold meats
- chilaquiles — (in Mexican cooking) a dish of fried tortilla strips typically topped with a spicy tomato sauce and cheese.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- chili sauce — a spiced sauce of chopped tomatoes, green and red sweet peppers, onions, etc.
- chou en-lai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949–58) and premier (1949–76)
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- circularise — (British) alternative spelling of circularize.
- circularize — to distribute circulars to
- circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
- ciudad real — a market town in S central Spain. Pop: 65 703 (2003 est)
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- coeducation — instruction in schools, colleges, etc, attended by both sexes
- coinsurance — a method of insurance by which property is insured for a certain percentage of its value by a commercial insurance policy while the owner assumes liability for the remainder
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- colliquable — capable of dissolving
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- communalise — Alternative form of communalize.
- communalize — to render (something) the property of a commune or community
- communicate — to impart (knowledge) or exchange (thoughts, feelings, or ideas) by speech, writing, gestures, etc
- commutative — relating to or involving substitution
- computative — of, relating to, or involving computation
- concubinage — cohabitation without legal marriage
- configurate — to shape or fashion
- confutative — That confutes.
- conjugative — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- connaisseur — A specialist of a given field, especially in one of the fine arts or in a matter of taste: a connoisseur.
- consanguine — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
- continuance — The continuance of something is its continuation.
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- corniculate — having horns or hornlike projections
- counterraid — a retaliatory raid on an enemy
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- cuirassiers — Plural form of cuirassier.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- curia regis — (in Norman England) the king's court, which performed all functions of government
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.