11-letter words containing c, l, i
- crazy quilt — If you describe something as a crazy quilt of other things, you mean that it is a mixture of those things without any pattern or order.
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- credibility — If someone or something has credibility, people believe in them and trust them.
- credit line — A person or company's credit line is the amount of credit that they are allowed, for example, by a credit card company or a bank.
- credit slip — A credit slip is the same as a credit note.
- cremaillere — a trench or fortification constructed in an indented or saw-tooth pattern
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- 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.
- criminology — Criminology is the scientific study of crime and criminals.
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- crinkleroot — any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- crinkliness — The state or quality of being crinkly.
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- cripplingly — Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
- criticality — the state of being critical
- crocidolite — a blue fibrous amphibole mineral consisting of sodium iron silicate: a variety of asbestos used in cement products and pressure piping
- crocodilian — any large predatory reptile of the order Crocodilia, which includes the crocodiles, alligators, and caymans. They live in or near water and have a long broad snout, powerful jaws, a four-chambered heart, and socketed teeth
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crop circle — any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- cross-slide — the part of a lathe or planing machine on which the tool post is mounted and across which it slides at right angles to the bed of the lathe
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- cryobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the effects of very low temperatures on organisms
- cryptically — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- cryptologic — cryptography.
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- crystallise — to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.
- crystallite — any of the minute rudimentary or imperfect crystals occurring in many glassy rocks
- crystallize — If you crystallize an opinion or idea, or if it crystallizes, it becomes fixed and definite in someone's mind.
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- cudgellings — beatings with a cudgel
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culmicolous — (of a fungus) growing on grass culms.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- 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.
- culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cult figure — a person who inspires devotion in a particular group of people