11-letter words containing d, e, c, r, a
- calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
- calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- camaraderie — Camaraderie is a feeling of trust and friendship among a group of people who have usually known each other for a long time or gone through some kind of experience together.
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- canary seed — birdseed.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
- cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
- capernoited — capricious
- capped-rate — having a fixed upper limit
- caramelized — Simple past tense and past participle of caramelize.
- carbamidine — guanidine.
- carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
- card reader — a device, no longer widely used, for reading information on a punched card and transferring it to a computer
- cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- cardinalate — the rank, office, or term of office of a cardinal
- cardiogenic — originating in the heart, or resulting from a disorder of the heart
- cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
- carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
- caricatured — Simple past tense and past participle of caricature.
- carnationed — having the colour of flesh
- carotenoids — Plural form of carotenoid.
- carry trade — a speculative transaction in which a trader buys the currency of a country with a high rate of interest and sells the currency of a country with a low rate of interest
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
- casa grande — the massive, prehistoric structure within Indian ruins in S Ariz., now constituting a national monument
- case-harden — to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment
- casehardens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caseharden.
- categorised — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
- cathedratic — relating to the seat of the bishop
- cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
- cattle grid — A cattle grid is a set of metal bars in the surface of a road which prevents cattle and sheep from walking along the road, but allows people and vehicles to pass.
- cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.
- cedar apple — a brown gall on the branches of the juniper, produced by several rust fungi of the genus Gymnosporangium.
- cedar chest — a chest made of cedar, in which woolens, furs, etc. are stored for protection against moths