11-letter words containing i, r, e, n, c
- credit note — A credit note is a piece of paper that a shop gives you when you return goods that you have bought from it. It states that you are entitled to take goods of the same value without paying for them.
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crepitating — Present participle of crepitate.
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- crime scene — A crime scene is a place that is being investigated by the police because a crime has taken place there.
- crimean war — the war fought mainly in the Crimea between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Sardinia, and Britain on the other (1853-56)
- criminalese — the jargon of criminals
- criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
- criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- 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.
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- cross-index — a note or notes referring the reader to other material
- crownpieces — Plural form of crownpiece.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- cryogenized — treated with or stored in a cryogen.
- cryokinesis — The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
- cryokinetic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of cryokinesis.
- cryptogenic — (esp of diseases) of unknown or obscure origin
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiousness — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- cursiveness — the quality of being cursive
- cursoriness — The state of being cursory.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- cyberfriend — A friend with whom one communicates only through the Internet or cyberspace.
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- 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.
- cycloserine — an antibiotic effective in the treatment of tuberculosis
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
- dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- decennaries — Plural form of decennary.
- decentering — to put out of center.
- deciphering — Present participle of decipher.