11-letter words containing c, i, r, u, m
- collutorium — collutory.
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniform — Having the form of a column.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- commissures — Plural form of commissure.
- compulsitor — a thing, such as a mandate, that compels
- computerise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerize.
- computerist — a computer user
- computerize — To computerize a system, process, or type of work means to arrange for a lot of the work to be done by computer.
- computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
- consumerism — Consumerism is the belief that it is good to buy and use a lot of goods.
- consumerist — Consumerist economies are ones which encourage people to consume a lot of goods.
- consumerize — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
- copernicium — a highly radioactive element that is produced synthetically. Symbol: Cn; atomic no: 112; atomic wt: 285
- corn muffin — a muffin, often shaped like a cupcake, made from cornmeal.
- corrigendum — an error to be corrected
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- coulometric — (physics, chemistry) of, or relating to coulometry.
- countermine — a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by an enemy
- courtierism — the characteristic practices or qualities of a courtier
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role 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.
- curriculums — Plural form of curriculum.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- dramaturgic — Of or relating to the art of dramatic composition for the stage.
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- eco-tourism — Eco-tourism is the business of providing holidays and related services which are not harmful to the environment of the area.
- emunctories — Plural form of emunctory.
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.
- endocardium — The thin, smooth membrane that lines the inside of the chambers of the heart and forms the surface of the valves.
- endocranium — (anatomy) The layer between the dura mater and the skull.
- eremacausis — A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or dead animals.
- eubacterium — A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the “ true ” bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria.