9-letter words containing c, l, i, m
- coliforms — Plural form of coliform.
- coliseums — Plural form of coliseum.
- collegium — (in the former Soviet Union) a board in charge of a department
- collimate — to adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
- colluvium — a mixture of rock fragments from the bases of cliffs
- collyrium — any medicated preparation for the eyes; eyewash
- colombian — Colombian means belonging or relating to Colombia or its people or culture.
- colourism — discrimination in which people are judged on the basis of their skin colour
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columbium — niobium
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- comboloio — A Muslim rosary consisting of ninety-nine beads.
- comedical — of, relating to, or of the nature of comedy.
- comeliest — Superlative form of comely.
- comically — producing laughter; amusing; funny: a comical fellow.
- comingled — Simple past tense and past participle of comingle.
- commingle — to mix or be mixed; blend
- committal — Committal is the process of officially sending someone to a prison or to hospital.
- compilate — (rare) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- compilers — Plural form of compiler.
- compiling — Present participle of compile.
- complains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complain.
- complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
- compliant — If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do.
- complicit — If someone is complicit in a crime or unfair activity, they are involved in it.
- compliers — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- complying — Present participle of comply.
- comprisal — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comptible — (obsolete) accountable; responsible.
- coseismal — of or designating points at which earthquake waves are felt at the same time
- cosmoline — a substance obtained from petroleum that is similar to petrolatum and is applied to machinery, esp vehicles or weapons, in order to prevent rust
- coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
- creamlike — Resembling cream.
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- crimeless — free from crime; innocent
- criminals — Plural form of criminal.
- crimplene — Crimplene is an artificial fabric used for making clothes which does not crease easily.
- crop milk — a liquid secreted in the crop of certain adult pigeons and fed to their newly hatched young.
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- cubiculum — an underground burial chamber in Imperial Rome, such as those found in the catacombs
- culminant — highest or culminating
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cult film — a film that a certain group of people admire very much
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church