12-letter words containing i, n, a, c, u, r
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
- churchianity — loyalty to the church rather than Christianity
- churchillian — relating to, typical of or reminiscent of Winston Churchill
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- communicator — a person who communicates, especially one skilled at conveying information, ideas, or policy to the public.
- compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configurator — an item of software that enables or assists in the configuration of a product
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjurations — Plural form of conjuration.
- connaisseurs — Plural form of connaisseur.
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- contributary — contributory
- contriturate — to triturate completely
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- council area — any of the 32 unitary authorities into which Scotland has been divided for administrative purposes since April 1996
- counter-raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- counterstain — to apply two or more stains in sequence to (a specimen to be examined), each of which colours a different tissue
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- court action — a legal action
- craniocaudal — (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- crucian carp — a common cyprinid, Carassius carassius, that closely resembles the wild form of goldfish, occurring in streams in most parts of Europe and northern Asia.
- cuprammonium — an ion of copper oxide used (in solution) in the manufacture of rayon and other man-made fibres
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curia romana — the body of congregations, offices, permanent commissions, etc., that assist the pope in the government and administration of the church.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain call — In a theatre, when actors or performers take a curtain call, they come forward to the front of the stage after a performance in order to receive the applause of the audience.