11-letter words containing i, l, r
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- corticolous — living or growing on the surface of bark
- coulometric — (physics, chemistry) of, or relating to coulometry.
- councillors — Plural form of councillor.
- councillour — Obsolete form of councillor.
- counterfoil — A counterfoil is the part of a cheque, ticket, or other document that you keep when you give the other part to someone else.
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- cracklingly — With a crackling sound.
- cranesbills — Plural form of cranesbill.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crazy quilt — If you describe something as a crazy quilt of other things, you mean that it is a mixture of those things without any pattern or order.
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- credibility — If someone or something has credibility, people believe in them and trust them.
- credit line — A person or company's credit line is the amount of credit that they are allowed, for example, by a credit card company or a bank.
- credit slip — A credit slip is the same as a credit note.
- cremaillere — a trench or fortification constructed in an indented or saw-tooth pattern
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- criminalese — the jargon of criminals
- criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
- criminalist — a person who collects and analyses forensic evidence from the scene of a crime
- criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
- criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
- criminology — Criminology is the scientific study of crime and criminals.
- crinkle-cut — (of chips or crisps) having a striated or furrowed surface
- crinkleroot — any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- crinkliness — The state or quality of being crinkly.
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- cripplingly — Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
- criticality — the state of being critical
- crocidolite — a blue fibrous amphibole mineral consisting of sodium iron silicate: a variety of asbestos used in cement products and pressure piping
- crocodilian — any large predatory reptile of the order Crocodilia, which includes the crocodiles, alligators, and caymans. They live in or near water and have a long broad snout, powerful jaws, a four-chambered heart, and socketed teeth
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crop circle — any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- cross-slide — the part of a lathe or planing machine on which the tool post is mounted and across which it slides at right angles to the bed of the lathe
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- cryobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the effects of very low temperatures on organisms
- cryptically — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- cryptologic — cryptography.
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- crystallise — to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.