11-letter words containing c, l, a, r
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- circumsolar — surrounding or rotating around the sun
- citronellal — a colourless slightly water-soluble liquid with a lemon-like odour, a terpene aldehyde found esp in citronella and certain eucalyptus oils: used as a flavouring and in soaps and perfumes. Formula: (CH3)2C:CH(CH2)2CH(CH3)CH2CHO
- ciudad real — a market town in S central Spain. Pop: 65 703 (2003 est)
- cladocerans — Plural form of cladoceran.
- clairvoyant — Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead people.
- clamatorial — of or relating to the American flycatchers (family Tyrannidae)
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- clapperclaw — to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
- clarabellas — Plural form of clarabella.
- clarificant — any substance for clarifying a liquid.
- clarinetist — A clarinetist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- classic car — a car that is more than twenty-five years old
- classifiers — Plural form of classifier.
- classloader — (computing, Java) A mechanism for dynamically loading classes into a virtual machine.
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
- clear round — an instance of a horse and rider clearing all barriers without making any mistakes
- clear water — a city in W Florida.
- clearheaded — having or indicating a clear mind; lucid; unconfused
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cleptocracy — Alternative form of kleptocracy.
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- clericalism — a policy of upholding the power of the clergy
- clericalist — Of or pertaining to clericalism.
- clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
- click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- climacteric — a critical event or period
- clinandrium — a cavity in the upper part of the column of an orchid flower that contains the anthers
- clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
- clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
- clorazepate — a benzodiazepine, C 16 H 13 ClN 2 O 4 , used in the treatment of chronic anxiety states and as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
- close brace — right brace
- close ranks — to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
- close reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- clostridial — any of several rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, found in soil and in the intestinal tract of humans and animals.
- cloth-eared — deaf
- clotrimazol — Alternative form of clotrimazole.
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- co-relation — correlation
- coal cellar — an underground room used for the storage of coal