11-letter words containing i, c, s
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
- cunnilingus — Cunnilingus is oral sex which involves someone using their mouth to stimulate a woman's genitals.
- cunningness — skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- cupriferous — (of a substance such as an ore) containing or yielding copper
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curia regis — (in Norman England) the king's court, which performed all functions of government
- curialistic — of or relating to curialism or curialists
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- curiousness — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- curriculums — Plural form of curriculum.
- cursiveness — the quality of being cursive
- cursoriness — The state of being cursory.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- 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.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
- 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.
- cyberskills — Skills in using computer technology.
- cycloserine — an antibiotic effective in the treatment of tuberculosis
- cyclosporin — a substance, synthesized by certain soil fungi, that suppresses the immune response by disabling helper T cells, used to minimize rejection of foreign tissue transplants.
- cylindroids — Plural form of cylindroid.
- cynicalness — The state or quality of being cynical.
- cynophilist — a person with a love of dogs
- cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
- cystolithic — a mass of calcium carbonate on the cellulose wall.
- cystoscopic — Relating to, or using cystoscopy.
- cytoclastic — destructive to cells.
- 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
- cytologists — Plural form of cytologist.
- cytoplasmic — the cell substance between the cell membrane and the nucleus, containing the cytosol, organelles, cytoskeleton, and various particles.
- cytostatics — Plural form of cytostatic.
- cytotropism — cytotropic tendency or behavior.
- daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- damascening — Present participle of damascene.