11-letter words containing a, r, c, i
- clarinetist — A clarinetist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- classic car — a car that is more than twenty-five years old
- classifiers — Plural form of classifier.
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- clericalism — a policy of upholding the power of the clergy
- clericalist — Of or pertaining to clericalism.
- clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
- click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- climacteric — a critical event or period
- clinandrium — a cavity in the upper part of the column of an orchid flower that contains the anthers
- clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
- clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
- clostridial — any of several rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, found in soil and in the intestinal tract of humans and animals.
- clotrimazol — Alternative form of clotrimazole.
- co-chairman — one of two or more joint chairmen.
- co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- co-relation — correlation
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- coarctation — Pathology. a narrowing of the lumen of a blood vessel. a congenital anomaly of the heart in which there is a narrowing of the aorta, resulting in abnormal blood flow.
- coarse fish — a freshwater fish that is not a member of the salmon family
- coasteering — the sport of following a coastline by swimming, climbing, diving, and walking while wearing a wetsuit, a life jacket, and a helmet
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- codicillary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a codicil.
- cog railway — a railway for a very steep grade with traction supplied by a central cogged rail that meshes with a cogwheel on the engine
- cohabitator — One who cohabits.
- cohortative — intended to encourage
- 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
- coleorhizae — Plural form of coleorhiza.
- colinearity — the state of being arranged in the same linear sequence
- colleterial — relating to a glandular organ (colleterium) in some insects
- collinearly — lying in the same straight line.
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- colouration — (British spelling) alternative spelling of coloration.
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- combinatory — combinative
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- comisserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.