11-letter words containing e, t, r
- calc-sinter — travertine
- calefactory — giving warmth
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
- calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- cambric tea — a hot drink of milk, sugar, and water or, often, weak tea
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- canceration — the process of becoming cancerous
- candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- cane-cutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- canisterise — to put into canisters
- canisterize — to put into canisters
- 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
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- canto fermo — a melody that is the basis to which other parts are added in polyphonic music
- cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
- cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
- capernoited — capricious
- capernoitie — the head
- capped-rate — having a fixed upper limit
- caravanette — a motor vehicle with an area at the back that is equipped for living in
- carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
- carbonatite — a rare intrusive or extrusive igneous rock, mostly found in Africa, that contains a high proportion of carbonate minerals
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- carburetter — Alternative spelling of carburetor.
- carburettor — A carburettor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and petrol are mixed together to form a vapour which can be burned.
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- cardinalate — the rank, office, or term of office of a cardinal
- care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
- caricatured — Simple past tense and past participle of caricature.
- caricatures — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- carminative — able to relieve flatulence