11-letter words containing c, i, r, u, l
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- corticolous — living or growing on the surface of bark
- coulometric — (physics, chemistry) of, or relating to coulometry.
- councillors — Plural form of councillor.
- councillour — Obsolete form of councillor.
- counterfoil — A counterfoil is the part of a cheque, ticket, or other document that you keep when you give the other part to someone else.
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crazy quilt — If you describe something as a crazy quilt of other things, you mean that it is a mixture of those things without any pattern or order.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- cult figure — a person who inspires devotion in a particular group of people
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- culver city — a city in SW California, W of Los Angeles.
- culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curialistic — of or relating to curialism or curialists
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- curriculums — Plural form of curriculum.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- curtainwall — Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- decursively — in a decursive manner
- direct rule — Direct rule is a system in which a central government rules an area which has had its own parliament or law-making organization in the past.
- disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
- discolorous — (botany, of leaves) Having upper and lower surfaces of different colours.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
- distractful — (archaic) distracting.
- disulphuric — pyrosulphuric
- diurnal arc — the portion of the diurnal circle that is above the horizon at a given point.
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- diverticuli — Misspelling of diverticula.
- douroucouli — a small, nocturnal South American monkey of the genus Aotus, having large, owllike eyes: in danger of extinction.
- drill chuck — a chuck for holding a drill bit.
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.