12-letter words containing c, r, i, n
- caricaturing — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- carlovingian — Carolingian
- carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
- carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
- carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
- carrick bend — type of knot
- carrion crow — a common predatory and scavenging European crow, Corvus corone, similar to the rook but having a pure black bill
- carryings-on — wild, extravagant, or immoral behavior
- carthaginian — of or relating to Carthage or its inhabitants
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- catherine ii — known as Catherine the Great. 1729–96, empress of Russia (1762–96), during whose reign Russia extended her boundaries at the expense of Turkey, Sweden, and Poland: she was a patron of literature and the arts
- catilinarian — pertaining to or resembling Catiline.
- cavalierness — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- ceiling rose — decorative plaster centrepiece
- celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
- celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
- cement mixer — A cement mixer is a machine with a large revolving container into which builders put cement, sand, and water in order to make concrete.
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- centenarians — Plural form of centenarian.
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- centerpieces — Plural form of centerpiece.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- central asia — a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south. It includes the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and parts of Iran, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, and southwestern Siberia.
- central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
- central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
- central-fire — center-fire.
- centralising — Present participle of centralise.
- centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- centroclinal — of, relating to, or designating a rock formation in which the strata slope down and in towards a central point or area
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- centrolineal — Of lines, converging to a centre.
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
- cerebrations — Plural form of cerebration.
- cerebrotonia — a personality type characterized by restraint, alertness, and an intellectual approach to life: said to be correlated with an ectomorph body type
- cerebrotonic — relating to or resembling a personality type characterized by shyness, introspection, and emotional restraint, and often associated with an ectomorphic physique
- ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- cerinic acid — cerotic acid.
- cerivastatin — A synthetic statin formerly used to lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular disease, later withdrawn due to the risk of rhabdomyolysis.
- chain letter — A chain letter is a letter, often with a promise of money, that is sent to several people who send copies on to several more people. Chain letters are illegal in some countries.