11-letter words containing i, l, r
- clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
- clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
- click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- climacteric — a critical event or period
- clinandrium — a cavity in the upper part of the column of an orchid flower that contains the anthers
- clinochlore — a mineral similar to chlorite in appearance
- clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
- clinometric — (of crystals) having oblique angles between one or all axes.
- cliometrics — the study of economic history using statistics and computer analysis
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
- clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
- clock-timer — timer (def 4).
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- clostridial — any of several rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, found in soil and in the intestinal tract of humans and animals.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- clotrimazol — Alternative form of clotrimazole.
- co-relation — correlation
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- codicillary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a codicil.
- cog railway — a railway for a very steep grade with traction supplied by a central cogged rail that meshes with a cogwheel on the engine
- coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- coleorhizae — Plural form of coleorhiza.
- colinearity — the state of being arranged in the same linear sequence
- colleterial — relating to a glandular organ (colleterium) in some insects
- collinearly — lying in the same straight line.
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- collutorium — collutory.
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- color index — the difference between the apparent photographic magnitude and the apparent visual magnitude of a star.
- color solid — a three-dimensional representation of colors according to the relationship between their hue, value, and saturation.
- color-blind — Someone who is color-blind cannot see the difference between colors, especially between red and green.
- color-field — designating or of a style of abstract painting in which colors are applied to a canvas, often in large patches, with little variation in tone and little emphasis on form
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- colorimeter — an apparatus for determining the concentration of a solution of a coloured substance by comparing the intensity of its colour with that of a standard solution or with standard colour slides
- colorimetry — the analysis or measurement of color by means of a colorimeter
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
- colouration — (British spelling) alternative spelling of coloration.
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns