11-letter words containing c, i, r
- appreciator — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- apprenticed — a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
- apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
- approaching — coming closer in time
- appropriacy — the condition of delicate and precise fittingness of a word or expression to its context, even when it is chosen from a number of close synonyms
- apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
- aprioristic — belief in, or reliance upon, a priori reasoning, arguments, or principles.
- apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
- aquaerobics — A form of aerobics done while in water.
- aquiculture — aquaculture
- arachidonic — related to arachidonic acid or the derivatives of arachidonic acid
- arachis oil — peanut oil.
- arachnoidal — relating to the arachnoid
- araeometric — relating to araeometry
- araliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Araliaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, or woody climbers having small clusters of whitish or greenish flowers. The family includes the ivy and ginseng
- arc welding — a technique in which metal is welded by heat generated by an electric arc struck between two electrodes or between one electrode and the metal workpiece
- archaeornis — an extinct primitive Jurassic bird, formerly placed in the genus Archaeornis but now thought to be a species of archaeopteryx
- archaeozoic — Archeozoic
- archaically — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- archaicisms — Plural form of archaicism.
- archangelic — Theology. a chief or principal angel; in medieval angelology one of the nine orders of celestial attendants on God. Compare angel (def 1).
- archbishops — Plural form of archbishop.
- archdiocese — An archdiocese is the area over which an archbishop has control.
- archduchies — Plural form of archduchy.
- archegonial — relating to an archegonium
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- archenemies — Plural form of archenemy.
- archenteric — Of or pertaining to an archenteron.
- archeologic — (American spelling) alternative spelling of archaeologic.
- archicortex — (anatomy) Part of the allocortex, specifically three layered hippocampal cortexes necessary for hippocampus formation.
- archilochus — 7th century bc, Greek poet of Paros, notable for using his own experience as subject matter
- archimedean — of, relating to, or discovered by Archimedes.
- archipelago — An archipelago is a group of islands, especially small islands.
- architected — a person who engages in the profession of architecture.
- architector — (obsolete) An architect.
- architraved — having an architrave or architraves
- architraves — Plural form of architrave.
- archliberal — extremely liberal, especially in political thinking.
- archnemesis — A chief nemesis.
- archpriests — Plural form of archpriest.
- archtraitor — A chief or transcendent traitor.
- archvillain — A supreme villain; the most evil or powerful villain.
- arctic char — a char, Salvelinus alpinus, that occurs in northern and arctic seas
- arctic hare — a large hare, Lepus arcticus, of the Canadian Arctic whose fur is white in winter
- arctic seal — rabbit fur that has been sheared and dyed to simulate sealskin.
- arctic skua — a predatory gull-like bird, Stercorarius parasiticus, which harasses terns or gulls into dropping or disgorging fish they have caught; it breeds in northern Eurasia and North America
- arctic tern — a black-capped tern, Sterna paradisea, that breeds in the Arctic and then migrates as far south as the Antarctic
- arctic zone — the section of the earth's surface lying between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
- arcticology — the scientific study of the Polar Regions.
- arctophilia — the practice of collecting teddy bears