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11-letter words containing m, c, n, e, r

  • center jump — a jump ball between the centers of the opposing teams, held in the circle at the center of the court, as at the beginning of each period.
  • centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
  • centimeters — one 100th of a meter, equivalent to 0.3937 inch. Abbreviation: cm, cm.
  • centimetres — Plural form of centimetre.
  • centimetric — having a length of one centimetre
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • centromeres — Plural form of centromere.
  • centromeric — Pertaining to, or characteristic of centromeres.
  • centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
  • centrosomes — Plural form of centrosome.
  • centrosomic — Relating to the centrosome.
  • ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
  • ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
  • chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
  • chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
  • charlemagne — ?742–814 ad, king of the Franks (768–814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800–814). He conquered the Lombards (774), the Saxons (772–804), and the Avars (791–799). He instituted many judicial and ecclesiastical reforms, and promoted commerce and agriculture throughout his empire, which extended from the Ebro to the Elbe. Under Alcuin his court at Aachen became the centre of a revival of learning
  • chemosensor — A cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action.
  • cherishment — the act or process of cherishing
  • chernozemic — of or relating to a chernozem
  • childminder — A childminder is someone whose job it is to look after children when the children's parents are away or are at work. Childminders usually work in their own homes.
  • chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
  • chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
  • christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
  • 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
  • chronometer — A chronometer is an extremely accurate clock that is used especially by sailors at sea.
  • chronometre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of chronometer.
  • chronometry — the science or technique of measuring time with extreme accuracy
  • churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
  • 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.
  • circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • clergywomen — Plural form of clergywoman.
  • clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
  • clinometric — (of crystals) having oblique angles between one or all axes.
  • code number — a number used to identify something
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
  • come in for — If someone or something comes in for criticism or blame, they receive it.
  • commandeers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commandeer.
  • commendator — a person who holds a commendam
  • commentator — A commentator is a broadcaster who gives a radio or television commentary on an event.
  • common core — the most important subjects of the curriculum
  • common tern — any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
  • common year — an ordinary year of 365 days; a year having no intercalary period.
  • compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
  • compearance — the act of appearing in court
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