11-letter words containing m, a, c, r, o
- 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
- chromograph — (obsolete) chromolithograph.
- chromoplasm — chromatin.
- chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
- chromosomal — Chromosomal means relating to or connected with chromosomes.
- chronograms — Plural form of chronogram.
- chrysomonad — any golden-yellow to brown freshwater algae of the class Chrysomonadales (phylum Chrysophyta), living singly or in colonies; blooms may color the water brown.
- churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
- cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- circumsolar — surrounding or rotating around the sun
- clamatorial — of or relating to the American flycatchers (family Tyrannidae)
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- clotrimazol — Alternative form of clotrimazole.
- co-chairman — one of two or more joint chairmen.
- coat armour — a coat of arms
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- coffeemaker — Any of several different types of kitchen apparatus used to brew and filter coffee.
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- combat gear — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- combinatory — combinative
- come across — If you come across something or someone, you find them or meet them by chance.
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- comfortable — If a piece of furniture or an item of clothing is comfortable, it makes you feel physically relaxed when you use it, for example because it is soft.
- comfortably — If you do something comfortably, you do it easily.
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- comisserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- command car — a vehicle for use by a commander and staff.
- commandeers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commandeer.
- commemorate — To commemorate an important event or person means to remember them by means of a special action, ceremony, or specially-created object.
- commendator — a person who holds a commendam
- commentator — A commentator is a broadcaster who gives a radio or television commentary on an event.
- commercials — Plural form of commercial.
- comminatory — Threatening, punitive, or vengeful.
- commiserate — If you commiserate with someone, you show them pity or sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to them.
- commissaire — (in professional cycle racing) a referee who travels in an open-topped car with the riders to witness any infringement of the rules
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- common crab — an edible crustacean, Cancer pagurusan
- common year — an ordinary year of 365 days; a year having no intercalary period.
- commutators — Plural form of commutator.
- company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.
- comparatist — a person who carries out comparative studies, esp a student of comparative literature or comparative linguistics
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.