11-letter words containing l, e, c, t, r
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
- bracteolate — having bractlets
- breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- cafe filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
- calc-sinter — travertine
- calefactory — giving warmth
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
- calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- cardinalate — the rank, office, or term of office of a cardinal
- carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
- carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
- carpet tile — a tile made of carpeting material that is used for flooring.
- cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
- cartwheeler — a person who performs cartwheels
- carunculate — having a caruncle.
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- cash letter — a deposit list from one bank to another containing items to be credited to the account of the depositing bank.
- castelvetro — Lodovico [loh-duh-vee-koh;; Italian law-daw-vee-kaw] /ˌloʊ dəˈvi koʊ;; Italian ˌlɔ dɔˈvi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1505–71, Italian philologist and literary critic.
- castlereagh — a district of E Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 66 076 (2003 est). Area: 85 sq km (33 sq miles)
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
- categorical — If you are categorical about something, you state your views very definitely and firmly.
- caterpillar — A caterpillar is a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.