11-letter words containing c, r
- anticarious — preventing or retarding caries.
- antichamber — Obsolete form of antechamber.
- antichoicer — someone who opposes the granting of pregnant women the choice to have an abortion
- antichrists — Plural form of antichrist.
- anticipator — to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.
- anticruelty — the prevention of or opposition to cruelty
- anticryptic — serving to conceal an animal from its prey.
- anticulture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- antinuclear — opposed to nuclear weapons
- antipyretic — preventing or alleviating fever
- antipyrotic — relieving the pain and stimulating the healing of burns.
- antiradical — opposed to radicalism
- antisecrecy — opposed to secrecy, particularly in government
- aortic arch — one member of a series of paired curved blood vessels that arise in the embryo from the ventral aorta, pass around the pharynx through the branchial arches, and join with the dorsal aorta to form the great vessels of the head and neck.
- aortoclasia — rupture of the aorta.
- apgar score — system for determining the condition of an infant at birth
- aphrodisiac — An aphrodisiac is a food, drink, or drug which is said to make people want to have sex.
- aponeurotic — a whitish, fibrous membrane that connects a muscle to a bone or fascia.
- apostrophic — a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”.
- apparatchik — An apparatchik is someone who works for a government or a political party and who obeys orders.
- appearances — the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
- apperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of apperceive.
- apple cider — non-alcoholic juice drink
- applescript — (language) An object-oriented shell language for the Macintosh, approximately a superset of HyperTalk.
- applicators — Plural form of applicator.
- applicatory — suitable for application
- apprecation — (obsolete) Earnest prayer; devout wish.
- appreciable — An appreciable amount or effect is large enough to be important or clearly noticed.
- appreciably — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
- appreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- appreciates — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- appreciator — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- apprenticed — a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
- apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
- approacheth — Archaic third-person singular form of approach.
- approaching — coming closer in time
- appropriacy — the condition of delicate and precise fittingness of a word or expression to its context, even when it is chosen from a number of close synonyms
- apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
- aprioristic — belief in, or reliance upon, a priori reasoning, arguments, or principles.
- apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
- aquaculture — the cultivation of freshwater and marine resources, both plant and animal, for human consumption or use
- aquaerobics — A form of aerobics done while in water.
- aquiculture — aquaculture
- arachidonic — related to arachidonic acid or the derivatives of arachidonic acid
- arachis oil — peanut oil.
- arachnoidal — relating to the arachnoid
- arachnology — the study of arachnids
- araeometric — relating to araeometry
- araliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Araliaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, or woody climbers having small clusters of whitish or greenish flowers. The family includes the ivy and ginseng
- arboraceous — resembling a tree