11-letter words containing r, i, e, m, a
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- caramelized — Simple past tense and past participle of caramelize.
- caramelizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caramelize.
- carbamidine — guanidine.
- carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- carminative — able to relieve flatulence
- cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
- cavalierism — the principles or practice of cavaliers
- centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
- centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
- ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
- ceramicists — Plural form of ceramicist.
- cerebralism — the theory that physical phenomena arise from the action of the brain
- ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
- chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
- chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
- chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
- chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
- chrominance — the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity
- cine camera — a camera in which a strip of film moves past the lens, usually to give 16 or 24 exposures per second, thus enabling moving pictures to be taken
- cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- clericalism — a policy of upholding the power of the clergy
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- climacteric — a critical event or period
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- comic opera — a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations
- comic-opera — comically vainglorious; having farcically self-important aspects: a comic-opera army, proud in its ceremonial splendor but inept on the battlefield.
- comisserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commercials — Plural form of commercial.
- commiserate — If you commiserate with someone, you show them pity or sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to them.
- commissaire — (in professional cycle racing) a referee who travels in an open-topped car with the riders to witness any infringement of the rules
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comraderies — camaraderie.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- confirmable — Capable of being checked, verifiable.
- confirmance — (obsolete) confirmation.