11-letter words containing c, l, a, m
- conterminal — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- coralliform — resembling coral in shape
- coxcombical — of or resembling the characteristic nature of a coxcomb
- craftsmanly — Befitting a craftsman.
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- cremaillere — a trench or fortification constructed in an indented or saw-tooth pattern
- criminalese — the jargon of criminals
- criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
- criminalist — a person who collects and analyses forensic evidence from the scene of a crime
- criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
- criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- culminating — final; decisive
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cyclothymia — a condition characterized by periodical swings of mood between excitement and depression, activity and inactivity
- cytomegalic — of or relating to a disease characterized by enlarged cells
- cytoplasmic — the cell substance between the cell membrane and the nucleus, containing the cytosol, organelles, cytoskeleton, and various particles.
- dactylogram — a fingerprint
- dactylonomy — The use of one's fingers to express numbers.
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- decimalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decimalize.
- decimalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimalize.
- declamation — a rhetorical or emotional speech, made esp in order to protest or condemn; tirade
- declamatory — A declamatory phrase, statement, or way of speaking is dramatic and confident.
- declarement — (obsolete) declaration.
- decremental — relating to a small amount that is taken away
- demagogical — Demagogic.
- demonically — In a demonic way.
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.
- diplomatics — the science of deciphering old official documents, as charters, and of determining their authenticity, age, or the like.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- disclaimers — Plural form of disclaimer.
- disclaiming — Present participle of disclaim.
- discriminal — Involved in discrimination.
- domiciliary — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- domiciliate — to domicile.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- dutch metal — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- dynamically — Of a dynamic nature; variable or constantly changing nature.