11-letter words containing a, l, n, c
- calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
- calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
- calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- californian — of or relating to California or its inhabitants
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
- call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
- callanetics — a system of exercise involving frequent repetition of small muscular movements and squeezes, designed to improve muscle tone
- callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
- callousness — made hard; hardened.
- calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
- calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
- calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- camino real — a main road; highway.
- campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- canada lily — a lily, Lilium canadense, of NE North America, with small orange funnel-shaped nodding flowers
- canada lynx — a North American lynx (Lynx lynx canadensis) with tufted ears and a stubby tail
- canal barge — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- canalicular — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a canaliculus.
- canaliculus — a small channel, furrow, or groove, as in some bones and parts of plants
- cancelation — an act of canceling.
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- cancellable — able to be cancelled
- cancellated — Anatomy. of spongy or porous structure, as bone.
- cancelm00se — Cancelmoose
- cancelmoose — (messaging) A semi-mythical being that cancels Usenet articles posted by others. (In general, an article can only be cancelled by its original author.) The Cancelmoose's usual target is spam or extremely excessive cross-posting. Some believe that the Cancelmoose exists only in the same mythic sense that B1FF, the NSA line eater and Shub Internet exist; others consider Cancelmoose's historicity to be closer to that of Kibo. The latter group assume that the real Cancelmoose is not one person (or moose), but instead is a cabal of NNTP wonks. However, the Cancelmoose is probably real, seeing as how it has its own website.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candle-foot — foot-candle
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candleflame — Flame of a candle.
- candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
- candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.