11-letter words containing c, l, e, r, i, s
- king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
- lacerations — Plural form of laceration.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- lex scripta — written law; statute law.
- lickerishly — In a lickerish manner.
- linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
- lip service — insincere expression of friendship, admiration, support, etc.; service by words only: He paid only lip service to the dictator.
- locorestive — having a tendency to rest in one place
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marcellus i — Saint, died a.d. 309, pope 308–309.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- mercilessly — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- microvessel — (medicine) A very small blood vessel, such as a capillary or arteriole.
- millicuries — Plural form of millicurie.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- multicourse — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- multiscreen — Having multiple screens.
- multisource — Employing multiple sources.
- music lover — sb who enjoys listening to music
- necessarily — by or of necessity; as a matter of compulsion or requirement: You don't necessarily have to attend.
- necrologies — Plural form of necrology.
- necrologist — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- necropoleis — Plural form of necropolis.
- obstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- peristaltic — of, relating to, or resembling peristalsis.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- plasticizer — any of a group of substances that are used in plastics or other materials to impart viscosity, flexibility, softness, or other properties to the finished product.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
- pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- processible — capable of being processed.
- prosiliency — prominence
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
- radicalised — to make radical or more radical, as in politics: young people who are being radicalized by extremist philosophies.
- radicalness — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
- radicellose — having small roots or rhizoids
- ratio scale — a scale of measurement of data which permits the comparison of differences of values; a scale having a fixed zero value. The distances travelled by a projectile, for instance, are measured on a ratio scale since it makes sense to talk of one projectile travelling twice as far as another
- recall slip — a printed piece of paper sent by library staff to a borrower's home address to remind them that a book is overdue