11-letter words containing c, r, i, t, e, o
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rich object — In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- riot police — police armed against public disorder
- roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rodenticide — a substance or preparation for killing rodents.
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- sclerotitis — scleritis.
- sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- second-tier — not in the first rank
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
- 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
- soccer city — a large football stadium in South Africa, in the Soweto area of Johannesburg; headquarters of the South African Football Association
- sociometric — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- stenocardia — angina pectoris, a contraction of the heart or its vessels due to a lack of oxygen, causing severe chest pain
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
- stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- stereoptics — the branch of stereoscopy that is concerned with optics
- stereotaxic — of, relating to, or based on three-dimensional studies of the brain, especially as an adjunct to brain surgery.
- stereotomic — the technique of cutting solids, as stones, to specified forms and dimensions.
- stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- tail covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's tail feathers.
- tautometric — having the same metre or arrangement of syllables
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- telocentric — of or relating to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is positioned at its end, creating one chromosome arm. Compare acentric (def 2), acrocentric, metacentric (def 2).
- teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
- terricolous — living on or in the ground.
- terroristic — a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
- the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860
- the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
- the tropics — that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the Torrid Zone