11-letter words containing r, i, c
- civic trust — a charitable organization in Britain which aims to improve the quality of new and historic buildings and public spaces, and to help improve the general quality of urban life.
- civil court — a court of law in which civil cases are tried and determined. See also civil law (def 1).
- clairvoyant — Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead people.
- clamatorial — of or relating to the American flycatchers (family Tyrannidae)
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- clarificant — any substance for clarifying a liquid.
- clarinetist — A clarinetist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- classic car — a car that is more than twenty-five years old
- classifiers — Plural form of classifier.
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- 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
- click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
- 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
- clinandrium — a cavity in the upper part of the column of an orchid flower that contains the anthers
- 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 radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
- clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
- 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.
- clostridial — any of several rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, found in soil and in the intestinal tract of humans and animals.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- clotrimazol — Alternative form of clotrimazole.
- co-chairman — one of two or more joint chairmen.
- co-director — to direct (a movie or other performance) with another or others.
- co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- co-relation — correlation
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- coarctation — Pathology. a narrowing of the lumen of a blood vessel. a congenital anomaly of the heart in which there is a narrowing of the aorta, resulting in abnormal blood flow.
- coarse fish — a freshwater fish that is not a member of the salmon family
- coasteering — the sport of following a coastline by swimming, climbing, diving, and walking while wearing a wetsuit, a life jacket, and a helmet
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- cocciferous — (of a plant) bearing berries
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- cockatrices — Plural form of cockatrice.
- cockcrowing — The crowing sound of a cock.