12-letter words containing c, i, e, l
- country life — life in the country
- country mile — a long way
- courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- credentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- credibleness — The state or quality of being credible.
- credit limit — Your credit limit is the amount of debt that you are allowed, for example, by your credit card company.
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- crenellating — Present participle of crenellate.
- crenellation — to furnish with crenels or battlements.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- creolization — (of a pidgin language) the process of becoming a creole
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2
- criticalness — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- criticisable — Alternative form of criticizable.
- criticizable — to censure or find fault with.
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallites — Plural form of crystallite.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystallizer — A crystallizer is a vessel or stage in which a crystal grows from a liquid.
- crystallizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystallize.
- cultivatable — Cultivable.
- culturalized — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
- curliewurlie — an extremely curled or twisted object or ornament
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain line — the last line of a scene, act, etc., as in a play; tag line.
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- curule chair — an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybernetical — of or relating to cybernetics
- cyberreality — A reality created in cyberspace.