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11-letter words containing c, r, i, n, o

  • retroaction — action that is opposed or contrary to the preceding action.
  • rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
  • rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
  • ribbon copy — the original copy of a number of typewritten copies (distinguished from carbon copy).
  • ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
  • ricinus oil — castor oil.
  • rickrolling — the playfully pointless practice of performing or playing the song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ by the British singer Rick Astley to a person or group of people either at a public event or online by means of a disguised hyperlink
  • riding crop — crop (def 7).
  • rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
  • road racing — a competitive event of racing in automobiles, motorcycles, or bicycles over public roads or a twisting course simulating a public road, as opposed to a closed, banked track or a drag strip.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rock pigeon — rock dove.
  • rodenticide — a substance or preparation for killing rodents.
  • roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
  • roman curia — the judicial and executive organizations of the papal see comprising the government of the Catholic Church.
  • romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • romanticist — an adherent of romanticism in literature or art (contrasted with classicist).
  • romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
  • rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
  • rouen lilac — a shrub, Syringa chinensis, of France, having clusters of fragrant, lilac-purple flowers.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
  • saint croix — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
  • sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
  • sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • sardonicism — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
  • scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scorchingly — in a scorching manner
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
  • scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
  • second-tier — not in the first rank
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • secretional — of or relating to secretion
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
  • slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
  • snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
  • sniperscope — a snooperscope designed for attaching to a rifle or carbine.
  • solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
  • spin doctor — Slang. a press agent skilled at spin control.
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