11-letter words containing a, r, c, i
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crepitating — Present participle of crepitate.
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
- 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.
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- criticality — the state of being critical
- criticaster — a lowly or petty critic
- crocodilian — any large predatory reptile of the order Crocodilia, which includes the crocodiles, alligators, and caymans. They live in or near water and have a long broad snout, powerful jaws, a four-chambered heart, and socketed teeth
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- cross hairs — crossed lines, as of fine hair or cobweb, mounted in the optical system of a telescopic gun sight, surveyor's level, etc., to assist in precise aiming or centering of the instrument
- cross ratio — a ratio relating four points in the real or complex plane.
- cross-train — to train (a worker, athlete, etc.) to be proficient at different, usually related, skills, tasks, jobs, etc.
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- cryptarithm — a type of mathematical puzzle in which the digits of an equation have been substituted by letters
- cryptically — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- 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
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- crystallise — to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.
- crystallite — any of the minute rudimentary or imperfect crystals occurring in many glassy rocks
- crystallize — If you crystallize an opinion or idea, or if it crystallizes, it becomes fixed and definite in someone's mind.
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- cuirassiers — Plural form of cuirassier.
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curia regis — (in Norman England) the king's court, which performed all functions of government
- curialistic — of or relating to curialism or curialists
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature