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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.
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