11-letter words containing r, e, l, i, c
- circularize — to distribute circulars to
- circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
- circumflect — to emphasize with a circumflex accent
- circumvolve — to (cause to) turn around
- 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
- ciudad real — a market town in S central Spain. Pop: 65 703 (2003 est)
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- clarinetist — A clarinetist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- classifiers — Plural form of classifier.
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- clericalism — a policy of upholding the power of the clergy
- clericalist — Of or pertaining to clericalism.
- clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
- clerkliness — (obsolete) scholarship.
- clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- 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.
- climacteric — a critical event or period
- clinochlore — a mineral similar to chlorite in appearance
- clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
- clinometric — (of crystals) having oblique angles between one or all axes.
- cliometrics — the study of economic history using statistics and computer analysis
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- clock-timer — timer (def 4).
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- co-relation — correlation
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- coleorhizae — Plural form of coleorhiza.
- colinearity — the state of being arranged in the same linear sequence
- colleterial — relating to a glandular organ (colleterium) in some insects
- collinearly — lying in the same straight line.
- color index — the difference between the apparent photographic magnitude and the apparent visual magnitude of a star.
- color-field — designating or of a style of abstract painting in which colors are applied to a canvas, often in large patches, with little variation in tone and little emphasis on form
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- colorimeter — an apparatus for determining the concentration of a solution of a coloured substance by comparing the intensity of its colour with that of a standard solution or with standard colour slides
- colorimetry — the analysis or measurement of color by means of a colorimeter
- colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
- commercials — Plural form of commercial.
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- confirmable — Capable of being checked, verifiable.
- confirmedly — In a manner that is confirmed; definitely, as has been demonstrated.