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11-letter words containing c, e, t, a, l

  • continental — Continental means situated on or belonging to the continent of Europe except for Britain.
  • contractile — having the power to contract or to cause contraction
  • contraplete — either of two opposed and complementary elements in a relationship.
  • contrivable — Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
  • contubernal — occupying the same tent
  • conventuals — Plural form of conventual.
  • convictable — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
  • copperplate — a polished copper plate on which a design has been etched or engraved
  • corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
  • corniculate — having horns or hornlike projections
  • corporately — of, for, or belonging to a corporation or corporations: a corporate executive; She considers the new federal subsidy just corporate welfare.
  • correctable — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
  • correlating — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
  • correlation — A correlation between things is a connection or link between them.
  • correlative — If one thing is a correlative of another, the first thing is caused by the second thing, or occurs together with it.
  • corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
  • cotton lace — machine-made lace made from cotton
  • counterplan — an opposing plan
  • counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
  • counterplea — a reply to a plea
  • counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
  • countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
  • cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
  • crater lake — a lake in the crater of an extinct volcano in SW Oregon, in Crater Lake National Park. 20 sq. mi. (52 sq. km); 1996 feet (608 meters) deep.
  • credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
  • crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
  • crenellated — In a castle, a crenellated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
  • crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
  • crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
  • cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
  • crystal set — an early form of radio receiver having a crystal detector to demodulate the radio signals but no amplifier, therefore requiring earphones
  • crystal tea — a bog shrub, Ledum palustre, of the heath family, found from the North Temperate Zone to the Arctic Circle, having leaves that are rust-colored and hairy beneath with rolled margins, and dense clusters of white flowers.
  • 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.
  • cuitlacoche — corn smut.
  • culebra cut — former name of Gaillard Cut.
  • 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.
  • culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
  • culture war — conflict of values
  • cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
  • curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
  • curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
  • cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
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