11-letter words containing a, i, m
- coralliform — resembling coral in shape
- coram nobis — a writ to correct an injury caused by a mistake of the court.
- corporatism — Corporatism is the organization and control of a country by groups who share a common interest or profession.
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- cosmetician — a person who makes, sells, or applies cosmetics
- cosmic rays — Cosmic rays are rays that reach Earth from outer space and consist of atomic nuclei.
- cosmocratic — of or relating to a cosmocrat
- cosmonautic — Of or related to cosmonauts or cosmonautics.
- coxcombical — of or resembling the characteristic nature of a coxcomb
- crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniognomy — the scientific study of the shape and characteristics of the skull
- craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- crateriform — shaped like a crater
- creationism — Creationism is the belief that the account of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and that the theory of evolution is incorrect.
- cremaillere — a trench or fortification constructed in an indented or saw-tooth pattern
- crematories — Plural form of crematory.
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crimean war — the war fought mainly in the Crimea between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Sardinia, and Britain on the other (1853-56)
- criminalese — the jargon of criminals
- criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
- criminalist — a person who collects and analyses forensic evidence from the scene of a crime
- criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
- criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
- crimination — An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination.
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- criminatory — Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- cryptarithm — a type of mathematical puzzle in which the digits of an equation have been substituted by letters
- cryptogamic — Of, relating to, or denoting cryptogams.
- cryptomeria — a coniferous tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of China and Japan, with curved needle-like leaves and small round cones: family Taxodiaceae
- culminating — final; decisive
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- 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.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cyclothymia — a condition characterized by periodical swings of mood between excitement and depression, activity and inactivity
- cytomegalic — of or relating to a disease characterized by enlarged cells
- cytoplasmic — the cell substance between the cell membrane and the nucleus, containing the cytosol, organelles, cytoskeleton, and various particles.
- daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
- damascening — Present participle of damascene.
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish