11-letter words containing m, e, c
- crateriform — shaped like a crater
- cream sauce — a white sauce made from cream, butter, etc
- creationism — Creationism is the belief that the account of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and that the theory of evolution is incorrect.
- credit memo — A credit memo is an official written acknowledgement that money is owed back to a customer.
- cremaillere — a trench or fortification constructed in an indented or saw-tooth pattern
- crematories — Plural form of crematory.
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
- crime scene — A crime scene is a place that is being investigated by the police because a crime has taken place there.
- crime sheet — a record of an individual's offences against regulations
- crime spree — a series of crimes committed in quick succession
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- 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)
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- 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.
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crossmember — A transverse structural piece that adds support to a motor-vehicle chassis or other construction.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- cryptomeria — a coniferous tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of China and Japan, with curved needle-like leaves and small round cones: family Taxodiaceae
- cryptometer — an instrument used to determine the opacity of pigments and paints
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- 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.
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- custom-make — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cut-up poem — a poem created from parts of the works of various authors combined to form one composition.
- cutoff time — The cutoff time is the time at which a bank stops crediting same-day deposits.
- cyclometers — Plural form of cyclometer.
- cyclostomes — Plural form of cyclostome.
- cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- cytomegalic — of or relating to a disease characterized by enlarged cells
- damascening — Present participle of damascene.
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.