11-letter words containing c, l, a, r, t
- call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- 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.
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
- caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- cardinalate — the rank, office, or term of office of a cardinal
- cardinality — the property of possessing a cardinal number
- carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
- caricatural — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- carillonist — a carillonneur
- carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
- carpet tile — a tile made of carpeting material that is used for flooring.
- carry light — a searchlight used to illuminate a target while it is tracked and fired upon.
- cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- cartophilic — relating to cartophily
- cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
- cartwheeler — a person who performs cartwheels
- carunculate — having a caruncle.
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- cash letter — a deposit list from one bank to another containing items to be credited to the account of the depositing bank.
- castelvetro — Lodovico [loh-duh-vee-koh;; Italian law-daw-vee-kaw] /ˌloʊ dəˈvi koʊ;; Italian ˌlɔ dɔˈvi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1505–71, Italian philologist and literary critic.
- castlereagh — a district of E Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 66 076 (2003 est). Area: 85 sq km (33 sq miles)
- cat burglar — A cat burglar is a thief who steals from houses or other buildings by climbing up walls and entering through windows or through the roof.
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
- catarrhally — in a manner relating to the inflammation of a mucous membrane
- categorical — If you are categorical about something, you state your views very definitely and firmly.
- caterpillar — A caterpillar is a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.
- caterpiller — Archaic spelling of caterpillar.
- caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
- caterwauler — to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time.
- cathartical — Cathartic.
- cattle farm — a farm on which cattle are raised
- cattle grid — A cattle grid is a set of metal bars in the surface of a road which prevents cattle and sheep from walking along the road, but allows people and vehicles to pass.
- cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
- cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.