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11-letter words containing i, n, r, e

  • chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
  • christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
  • christening — A christening is a Christian ceremony in which a baby is made a member of the Christian church and is officially given his or her name. Compare baptism.
  • christingle — (in Britain) a Christian service for children held shortly before Christmas, in which each child is given a decorated fruit with a lighted candle in it
  • chrominance — the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity
  • chromogenic — producing colour
  • chroniclers — Plural form of chronicler.
  • chrysoidine — a red-brown or greenish-black, crystalline solid, C 12 H 13 N 4 Cl, that yields orange colors in aqueous or alcohol solution: used chiefly in dyeing cotton and silk.
  • cinder cone — a small, conical volcano built of ash and cinders.
  • cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
  • cine camera — a camera in which a strip of film moves past the lens, usually to give 16 or 24 exposures per second, thus enabling moving pictures to be taken
  • cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
  • cineritious — See cinereous.
  • cinnabarine — Resembling, containing, or relating to cinnabar.
  • cinnarizine — a drug principally used to control vomiting caused by motion sickness
  • circinately — In a circinate fashion.
  • circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
  • cirencester — a market town in S England, in Gloucestershire: Roman amphitheatre. Pop: 15 861 (2001)
  • citizenries — Plural form of citizenry.
  • citronellal — a colourless slightly water-soluble liquid with a lemon-like odour, a terpene aldehyde found esp in citronella and certain eucalyptus oils: used as a flavouring and in soaps and perfumes. Formula: (CH3)2C:CH(CH2)2CH(CH3)CH2CHO
  • citronellol — an alcohol present in oils from various aromatic plant species
  • city center — The city center is the busiest part of a city, where most of the shops and businesses are.
  • city centre — The city centre is the busiest part of a city, where most of the shops and businesses are.
  • clarinetist — A clarinetist is someone who plays the clarinet.
  • clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
  • 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.
  • clinochlore — a mineral similar to chlorite in appearance
  • clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
  • clinometric — (of crystals) having oblique angles between one or all axes.
  • cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
  • co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
  • co-relation — correlation
  • coasteering — the sport of following a coastline by swimming, climbing, diving, and walking while wearing a wetsuit, a life jacket, and a helmet
  • codirection — joint direction
  • coextrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
  • coffee ring — a coffeecake shaped like a ring, plain or fruited, often with a topping of raisins, ground nuts, and icing.
  • coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
  • coinherence — the act of inhering together
  • coinheritor — a fellow inheritor
  • coinsurance — a method of insurance by which property is insured for a certain percentage of its value by a commercial insurance policy while the owner assumes liability for the remainder
  • colinearity — the state of being arranged in the same linear sequence
  • collinearly — lying in the same straight line.
  • color index — the difference between the apparent photographic magnitude and the apparent visual magnitude of a star.
  • colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
  • come in for — If someone or something comes in for criticism or blame, they receive it.
  • complainers — Plural form of complainer.
  • compressing — Present participle of compress.
  • compression — the act of compressing or the condition of being compressed
  • computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
  • concentring — Present participle of concentre.
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