11-letter words containing c, r, i, n
- join forces — unite for a common purpose
- kaffir corn — a Southern African variety of sorghum, cultivated in dry regions for its grain and as fodder
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- kantorovich — Leonid Vitalyevich [ley-uh-nid vi-tal-yuh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet vyi-tah-lyuh-vyich] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd vɪˈtæl yə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit vyɪˈtɑ lyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, Soviet mathematician and economist: Nobel Prize in Economics 1975.
- kernicterus — (medicine) Damage to the brain centres of infants caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin).
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kinesiatric — of or relating to kinesiatrics
- kinetic art — art, as sculptural constructions, having movable parts activated by motor, wind, hand pressure, or other direct means and often having additional variable elements, as shifting lights.
- kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
- 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.
- kingcroaker — The weakfish or sea trout.
- kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
- labyrinthic — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- lacerations — Plural form of laceration.
- lacertilian — belonging or pertaining to the reptilian suborder Lacertilia, comprising the lizards.
- lacrimation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lamellicorn — having antennae with lamellate terminal segments, as beetles of the group Lamellicornia, including the scarabaeids and stag beetles.
- lancastrian — of or relating to the royal family of Lancaster.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- latchstring — a string passed through a hole in a door, for raising the latch from the outside.
- latin cross — an upright or vertical bar crossed near the top by a shorter horizontal bar.
- latrocinium — highway robbery
- line vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
- live center — Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- live centre — a conically pointed rod mounted in the headstock of a lathe that locates and turns with the workpiece
- locutionary — pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener.
- logocentric — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- loriciferan — (zoology) Any of several marine animals of the phylum Loricifera.
- low-scoring — (of a sports match) having, getting, or ending in a low score
- lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
- machinators — Plural form of machinator.
- machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macrodontia — the condition of having abnormally large teeth.
- macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- manneristic — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marcantonio — Raimondi, Marcantonio.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- marconi rig — a rig of triangular sails for a yacht.
- marconigram — a radiogram.