11-letter words containing c, i, m, n
- consumption — The consumption of fuel or natural resources is the amount of them that is used or the act of using them.
- consumptive — A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
- containment — Containment is the action or policy of keeping another country's power or area of control within acceptable limits or boundaries.
- contaminant — A contaminant is something that contaminates a substance such as water or food.
- contaminate — If something is contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
- contaminous — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- conterminal — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contumacity — the quality of being contumacious
- contumelies — Plural form of contumely.
- copernicium — a highly radioactive element that is produced synthetically. Symbol: Cn; atomic no: 112; atomic wt: 285
- coram nobis — a writ to correct an injury caused by a mistake of the court.
- corbynomics — the economic policies advocated by Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party from 2015
- corn muffin — a muffin, often shaped like a cupcake, made from cornmeal.
- corrigendum — an error to be corrected
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- cosmetician — a person who makes, sells, or applies cosmetics
- cosmogonies — Plural form of cosmogony.
- cosmogonist — A person who studies cosmogony.
- cosmonautic — Of or related to cosmonauts or cosmonautics.
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- cotton mill — a factory where cotton is spun or woven
- countermine — a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by an enemy
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniognomy — the scientific study of the shape and characteristics of the skull
- 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.
- crime scene — A crime scene is a place that is being investigated by the police because a crime has taken place there.
- 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.
- criminology — Criminology is the scientific study of crime and criminals.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- culminating — final; decisive
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- 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.
- cumulonimbi — Plural form of cumulonimbus.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cypriniform — Any of many ray-finned fish, of the order Cypriniformes, such as the carps, minnows and loaches.