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11-letter words containing c, i, r

  • calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
  • calc-sinter — travertine
  • calcariform — shaped like a calcar
  • calceolaria — any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers
  • calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
  • calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
  • calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
  • calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
  • calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendarist — a person who calendarizes
  • calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
  • calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
  • calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • calico crab — a brightly speckled swimming crab, Ovalipes ocellatus, of sandy beaches along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • californian — of or relating to California or its inhabitants
  • californite — vesuvianite jade.
  • californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
  • callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
  • calligramme — words arranged to form a picture
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • calorically — in a caloric manner
  • calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • camaraderie — Camaraderie is a feeling of trust and friendship among a group of people who have usually known each other for a long time or gone through some kind of experience together.
  • cambric tea — a hot drink of milk, sugar, and water or, often, weak tea
  • 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.
  • campaniform — shaped like a bell
  • campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • canalicular — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a canaliculus.
  • canceration — the process of becoming cancerous
  • candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • 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
  • canisterise — to put into canisters
  • canisterize — to put into canisters
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • canopic jar — (in ancient Egypt) one of four containers with tops in the form of animal heads of the gods, for holding the entrails of a mummy
  • canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
  • cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
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