9-letter words containing e, m, t, i, c
- cinematic — Cinematic means relating to films made for the cinema.
- cinnamate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of cinnamic acid.
- classtime — The time devoted to or prepared for a lesson at school or elsewhere; schooltime.
- clement i — Saint, called Clement of Rome. pope (?88–?97 ad). Feast day: Nov 23
- climatise — in Australia, adapt or become accustomed to a new climate or environment
- climatize — to acclimate to a new environment.
- clitellum — a thickened saddle-like region of epidermis in earthworms and leeches whose secretions bind copulating worms together and later form a cocoon around the eggs
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- clumsiest — awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
- coemption — the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity
- collimate — to adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- combinate — combined
- come into — If someone comes into some money, some property, or a title, they inherit it.
- comeliest — Superlative form of comely.
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- comintern — short for Communist International: an international Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and dissolved in 1943; it degenerated under Stalin into an instrument of Soviet politics
- comminate — to anathematize
- comminute — to break (a bone) into several small fragments
- committed — having a strong commitment to an ideology, religion, etc
- committee — A committee is a group of people who meet to make decisions or plans for a larger group or organization that they represent.
- committer — A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
- commotive — violent or tumultuous motion; agitation; noisy disturbance: What's all the commotion in the hallway?
- commutive — (linguistics) That which serves to commute.
- comp time — Comp time is time off that an employer gives to an employee because the employee has worked overtime. Comp time is short for compensation time.
- competing — Competing ideas, requirements, or interests cannot all be right or satisfied at the same time.
- compilate — (rare) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- composite — A composite object or item is made up of several different things, parts, or substances.
- compotier — a dish for holding compote
- comptible — (obsolete) accountable; responsible.
- condiment — A condiment is a substance such as salt, pepper, or mustard that you add to food when you eat it in order to improve the flavour.
- cosmetics — beauty preparations; make-up
- cosmetize — to cosmeticize.
- costumier — A costumier is a person or company that makes or supplies costumes.
- creamiest — Superlative form of creamy.
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- cretinism — a condition arising from a deficiency of thyroid hormone, present from birth, characterized by dwarfism and learning difficulties
- criminate — to charge with a crime; accuse
- criterium — a bicycle road race, consisting of numerous laps of a short closed circuit
- crumbiest — Superlative form of crumby.
- crummiest — Superlative form of crummy.
- ctenidium — one of the comblike respiratory gills of molluscs
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- customise — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
- decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.