11-letter words containing c, i, n, a, m
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- cameroonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republic of Cameroon or its inhabitants
- camino real — a main road; highway.
- campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
- campaigning — Military. military operations for a specific objective. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
- campaniform — shaped like a bell
- campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
- canadianism — the Canadian national character or spirit
- canis major — a constellation in the S hemisphere close to Orion, containing Sirius, the brightest star in the sky
- canis minor — a small constellation in the N hemisphere close to Orion, containing the first magnitude star Procyon
- cannibalism — If a group of people practise cannibalism, they eat the flesh of other people.
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- carbamidine — guanidine.
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
- carcinomata — Plural form of carcinoma.
- carminative — able to relieve flatulence
- carnivorism — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
- cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
- cementation — the process of heating a solid with a powdered material to modify the properties of the solid, esp the heating of wrought iron, surrounded with charcoal, to 750–900°C to produce steel
- 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
- ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
- cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
- chameleonic — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- chimichanga — a savoury deep-fried filled tortilla
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
- chiromantic — relating to chiromancy
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chrismation — a rite of initiation involving anointing with chrism and taking place at the same time as baptism
- chromatinic — Of or pertaining to chromatin.
- 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
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- 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.
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- cinematical — Of or pertaining to the cinema; cinematic.
- cinematized — Simple past tense and past participle of cinematize.
- circumlunar — around or revolving around the moon