11-letter words containing c, s, e, t, i
- countersuit — a legal claim made as a reaction to a claim made against one
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- courtierism — the characteristic practices or qualities of a courtier
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- cove stripe — a decorative stripe painted along the sheer strake of a vessel, esp of a sailing boat
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- creationism — Creationism is the belief that the account of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and that the theory of evolution is incorrect.
- creationist — A creationist is someone who believes that the story of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and who rejects the theory of evolution.
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- credit side — the side of a balance sheet showing income and assets
- credit slip — A credit slip is the same as a credit note.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crematories — Plural form of crematory.
- crested tit — a small European songbird, Parus cristatus, that has a greyish-brown plumage with a prominent speckled black-and-white crest: family Paridae (tits)
- crime sheet — a record of an individual's offences against regulations
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- criticaster — a lowly or petty critic
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- crystallise — to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.
- crystallite — any of the minute rudimentary or imperfect crystals occurring in many glassy rocks
- crystallize — If you crystallize an opinion or idea, or if it crystallizes, it becomes fixed and definite in someone's mind.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- cuts no ice — If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it.
- cyberethics — Ethics in cyberspace.
- cybernetics — Cybernetics is science which involves studying the way electronic machines and human brains work, and developing machines that do things or think like people.
- cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
- cytogenesis — the origin and development of plant and animal cells
- cytokinesis — division of the cytoplasm of a cell, occurring at the end of mitosis or meiosis
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- deactivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deactivate.
- debt crisis — a situation in which the large debts owed by a number of individuals, organizations or countries threaten to overwhelm them, so that they become unable to service their debts which, in turn, may threaten the stability of larger structures
- decapitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decapitate.
- decimations — Plural form of decimation.
- deck tennis — a game played on board ship in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high net on a small court resembling a tennis court
- declivities — a downward slope, as of ground (opposed to acclivity).
- declivitous — fairly steep
- decomposite — a composite element that is itself composed of other elements
- decorations — Plural form of decoration.