11-letter words containing l, e, n, c
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- crab nebula — the expanding remnant of the supernova observed in 1054 ad, lying in the constellation Taurus at an approximate distance of 6500 light years
- cranesbills — Plural form of cranesbill.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- 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.
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenellated — In a castle, a crenellated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- crown jewel — The Crown Jewels are the crown, sceptre, and other precious objects which are used on important official occasions by the King or Queen.
- crown wheel — the wheel next to the winding knob that has one set of teeth at right angles to the other
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- cudgellings — beatings with a cudgel
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- 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
- cushionless — without a cushion
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cyclazocine — an opiate antagonist used to inhibit the effects of morphine or heroin
- cycloalkane — any saturated hydrocarbon similar to an alkane but having a cyclic molecular structure and the general formula CnH2n
- cycloalkene — (organic chemistry) Any unsaturated alicyclic hydrocarbon.
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- cyclohexane — a colourless insoluble flammable liquid cycloalkane with a pungent odour, made by hydrogenation of benzene and used as a paint remover and solvent. Formula: C6H12
- cyclohexene — (organic compound) A cyclic hydrocarbon containing six carbon atoms and one double bond; any of its derivatives.
- cycloolefin — any of the homologous series of unsaturated, alicyclic hydrocarbons, as cyclooctatetraene and cyclopentadiene, containing one double bond in the ring and having the general formula C 11 H 2n−2 .
- cyclopentyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from cyclopentane by the formal removal of a hydrogen atom.
- cycloserine — an antibiotic effective in the treatment of tuberculosis
- cynicalness — The state or quality of being cynical.