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11-letter words containing c, a, r, m, e, n

  • centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
  • ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
  • chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
  • chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
  • charlemagne — ?742–814 ad, king of the Franks (768–814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800–814). He conquered the Lombards (774), the Saxons (772–804), and the Avars (791–799). He instituted many judicial and ecclesiastical reforms, and promoted commerce and agriculture throughout his empire, which extended from the Ebro to the Elbe. Under Alcuin his court at Aachen became the centre of a revival of learning
  • chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
  • chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
  • chrominance — the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity
  • cine camera — a camera in which a strip of film moves past the lens, usually to give 16 or 24 exposures per second, thus enabling moving pictures to be taken
  • cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
  • commandeers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commandeer.
  • commendator — a person who holds a commendam
  • commentator — A commentator is a broadcaster who gives a radio or television commentary on an event.
  • common year — an ordinary year of 365 days; a year having no intercalary period.
  • compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
  • compearance — the act of appearing in court
  • compensator — a person or thing that compensates
  • complainers — Plural form of complainer.
  • comportance — comportment
  • concamerate — To arch over; to vault.
  • confirmable — Capable of being checked, verifiable.
  • confirmance — (obsolete) confirmation.
  • conformable — corresponding in character; similar
  • conformance — conformity
  • congressman — A Congressman is a male member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
  • conjure man — (in the southern U.S. and the West Indies) a conjurer; witch doctor.
  • connumerate — to count together
  • conterminal — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
  • countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
  • countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
  • countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
  • craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
  • crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
  • craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
  • craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
  • craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
  • criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
  • cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
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