11-letter words containing c, i, t, r, a
- antisecrecy — opposed to secrecy, particularly in government
- aortic arch — one member of a series of paired curved blood vessels that arise in the embryo from the ventral aorta, pass around the pharynx through the branchial arches, and join with the dorsal aorta to form the great vessels of the head and neck.
- aortoclasia — rupture of the aorta.
- aponeurotic — a whitish, fibrous membrane that connects a muscle to a bone or fascia.
- apostrophic — a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”.
- apparatchik — An apparatchik is someone who works for a government or a political party and who obeys orders.
- applescript — (language) An object-oriented shell language for the Macintosh, approximately a superset of HyperTalk.
- applicators — Plural form of applicator.
- applicatory — suitable for application
- apprecation — (obsolete) Earnest prayer; devout wish.
- appreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- appreciates — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- 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.
- apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
- aprioristic — belief in, or reliance upon, a priori reasoning, arguments, or principles.
- aquiculture — aquaculture
- araeometric — relating to araeometry
- archenteric — Of or pertaining to an archenteron.
- archicortex — (anatomy) Part of the allocortex, specifically three layered hippocampal cortexes necessary for hippocampus formation.
- 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.
- archpriests — Plural form of archpriest.
- archtraitor — A chief or transcendent traitor.
- 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
- areocentric — relating to a reference system which has Mars as its centre
- aristarchus — a crater in the NE quadrant of the moon, having a diameter of about 37 kilometres, which is the brightest formation on the moon
- aristocracy — The aristocracy is a class of people in some countries who have a high social rank and special titles.
- aristocrats — Plural form of aristocrat.
- arith-matic — (language) An extension of Grace Hopper's A-2 programming language, developed in about 1955. ARITH-MATIC was originally known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing department of Remington Rand UNIVAC.
- arithmetics — Plural form of arithmetic.
- aromaticity — the property of certain planar cyclic conjugated molecules, esp benzene, of behaving like unsaturated molecules and undergoing substitution reactions rather than addition as a result of delocalization of electrons in the ring
- ars poetica — the art of poetry
- arsenicated — Treated with arsenate or other arsenic compound.
- arthritical — Also, arthritical. of, relating to, or afflicted with arthritis.
- articulable — having the ability to be articulated
- articularly — of or relating to the joints.
- articulated — An articulated vehicle, especially a lorry, is made in two or more sections which are joined together by metal bars, so that the vehicle can turn more easily.
- articulates — Express (an idea or feeling) fluently and coherently.
- articulator — a person or thing that articulates