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11-letter words containing c, l, i

  • calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendarist — a person who calendarizes
  • calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
  • calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
  • calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • calico bass — crappie
  • calico bush — mountain laurel
  • calico clam — any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Macrocallista, especially M. nimbosa, having a smooth, thick, rounded shell marked with violet-brown or lilac spots or streaks.
  • calico crab — a brightly speckled swimming crab, Ovalipes ocellatus, of sandy beaches along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • californian — of or relating to California or its inhabitants
  • californite — vesuvianite jade.
  • californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
  • calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
  • calixtus ii — died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.
  • call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
  • call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
  • callanetics — a system of exercise involving frequent repetition of small muscular movements and squeezes, designed to improve muscle tone
  • callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
  • calligramme — words arranged to form a picture
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • callimachus — late 5th century bc, Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
  • callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
  • callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
  • callistus i — Calixtus I.
  • calorically — in a caloric manner
  • calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
  • calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
  • calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
  • camino real — a main road; highway.
  • camouflagic — relating to camouflage
  • campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • canada lily — a lily, Lilium canadense, of NE North America, with small orange funnel-shaped nodding flowers
  • canalicular — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a canaliculus.
  • canaliculus — a small channel, furrow, or groove, as in some bones and parts of plants
  • cancelation — an act of canceling.
  • candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
  • candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
  • cannabidiol — (organic compound) A non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
  • cannibalise — to subject to cannibalism.
  • cannibalism — If a group of people practise cannibalism, they eat the flesh of other people.
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