11-letter words containing m, i, r, n
- corbynomics — the economic policies advocated by Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party from 2015
- corn muffin — a muffin, often shaped like a cupcake, made from cornmeal.
- corrigendum — an error to be corrected
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- countermine — a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by an enemy
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniognomy — the scientific study of the shape and characteristics of the skull
- craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- 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.
- crime scene — A crime scene is a place that is being investigated by the police because a crime has taken place there.
- 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)
- criminalese — the jargon of criminals
- criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
- criminalist — a person who collects and analyses forensic evidence from the scene of a crime
- criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
- criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
- crimination — An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination.
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- criminatory — Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing.
- criminology — Criminology is the scientific study of crime and criminals.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- cypriniform — Any of many ray-finned fish, of the order Cypriniformes, such as the carps, minnows and loaches.
- daydreaming — indulgence in daydreams
- debridement — the surgical removal of dead tissue or cellular debris from the surface of a wound
- decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
- deformation — the act of deforming; distortion
- degerminate — degerm (def 2).
- deliveryman — a man whose job is to deliver a product
- deliverymen — Plural form of deliveryman.
- demarcating — Present participle of demarcate.
- demarcation — Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
- demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
- demarketing — advertising that urges the public to limit the consumption of a product, as at a time of shortage.
- demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
- demigration — moving from one place to another
- denominator — In mathematics, the denominator is the number which appears under the line in a fraction.
- denormalize — (transitive, databases) To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
- densimeters — Plural form of densimeter.
- deprivement — deprivation
- derailments — Plural form of derailment.
- desipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant drug
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- determinant — A determinant of something causes it to be of a particular kind or to happen in a particular way.