11-letter words containing r, a, t, l
- brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
- brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- cafe filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calc-sinter — travertine
- calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
- calculators — Plural form of calculator.
- calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calefactory — giving warmth
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
- calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
- caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- cardinalate — the rank, office, or term of office of a cardinal
- cardinality — the property of possessing a cardinal number
- carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
- caricatural — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- carillonist — a carillonneur
- carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
- carpet tile — a tile made of carpeting material that is used for flooring.
- carry light — a searchlight used to illuminate a target while it is tracked and fired upon.
- cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- cartophilic — relating to cartophily
- cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.