11-letter words containing n, i, c, e
- cineritious — See cinereous.
- cinnabarine — Resembling, containing, or relating to cinnabar.
- cinnarizine — a drug principally used to control vomiting caused by motion sickness
- cinquecento — the 16th century, esp in reference to Italian art, architecture, or literature
- cinquefoils — Plural form of cinquefoil.
- circinately — In a circinate fashion.
- circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
- cirencester — a market town in S England, in Gloucestershire: Roman amphitheatre. Pop: 15 861 (2001)
- citizenhood — The state of being a citizen.
- citizenries — Plural form of citizenry.
- citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
- citronellal — a colourless slightly water-soluble liquid with a lemon-like odour, a terpene aldehyde found esp in citronella and certain eucalyptus oils: used as a flavouring and in soaps and perfumes. Formula: (CH3)2C:CH(CH2)2CH(CH3)CH2CHO
- citronellol — an alcohol present in oils from various aromatic plant species
- city center — The city center is the busiest part of a city, where most of the shops and businesses are.
- city centre — The city centre is the busiest part of a city, where most of the shops and businesses are.
- civilianize — to change the status of (an armed force, a base, etc) from military to nonmilitary
- clandestine — Something that is clandestine is hidden or kept secret, often because it is illegal.
- clarinetist — A clarinetist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clavecinist — a person who plays the clavecin
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- cleanliness — Cleanliness is the degree to which people keep themselves and their surroundings clean.
- cleisthenes — 6th century bc, Athenian statesman: democratized the political structure of Athens
- clement iii — (Paolo Scolari) died 1191, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1187–91.
- clement vii — original name Giulio de' Medici. 1478–1534, pope (1523–34): refused to authorize the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII of England to Catherine of Aragon (1533)
- clement xii — (Lorenzo Corsini) 1652–1740, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1730–40.
- clement xiv — (Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli; Lorenzo Ganganelli) 1705–74, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1769–74.
- clementines — an official compilation of decretals named after Clement V and issued in 1317 which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
- client base — A business's client base is the same as its customer base.
- clientelage — (dated) clientele; customers or patrons.
- clientelism — A political system based on personal relations rather than personal merits.
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- clingstones — Plural form of clingstone.
- clinochlore — a mineral similar to chlorite in appearance
- clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
- clinometric — (of crystals) having oblique angles between one or all axes.
- cloisonnage — cloisonné work
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
- cnidogenous — producing or containing nematocysts.
- co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- co-relation — correlation
- coalignment — Alignment together.