11-letter words containing r, o, l, i
- cordilleras — mountain system of W North America, including all mountains between the E Rockies & the Pacific coast
- corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
- corn liquor — an alcoholic drink distilled from corn mash
- corniculate — having horns or hornlike projections
- corollaries — Plural form of corollary.
- corolliform — having the form of a corolla
- corporality — the state or quality of being material or having a body; bodily existence or substance
- corpus vile — a person or thing fit only to be the object of an experiment
- correctible — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- correlating — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- correlation — A correlation between things is a connection or link between them.
- correlative — If one thing is a correlative of another, the first thing is caused by the second thing, or occurs together with it.
- corrosively — In a corrosive manner.
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- corticolous — living or growing on the surface of bark
- coulometric — (physics, chemistry) of, or relating to coulometry.
- councillors — Plural form of councillor.
- councillour — Obsolete form of councillor.
- counterfoil — A counterfoil is the part of a cheque, ticket, or other document that you keep when you give the other part to someone else.
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- criminology — Criminology is the scientific study of crime and criminals.
- crinkleroot — any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- crocidolite — a blue fibrous amphibole mineral consisting of sodium iron silicate: a variety of asbestos used in cement products and pressure piping
- crocodilian — any large predatory reptile of the order Crocodilia, which includes the crocodiles, alligators, and caymans. They live in or near water and have a long broad snout, powerful jaws, a four-chambered heart, and socketed teeth
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crop circle — any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- cross-slide — the part of a lathe or planing machine on which the tool post is mounted and across which it slides at right angles to the bed of the lathe
- cryobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the effects of very low temperatures on organisms
- cryptologic — cryptography.
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cycloserine — an antibiotic effective in the treatment of tuberculosis
- cyclosporin — a substance, synthesized by certain soil fungi, that suppresses the immune response by disabling helper T cells, used to minimize rejection of foreign tissue transplants.
- cylindroids — Plural form of cylindroid.
- declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
- declinatory — a plea that has the aim of demonstrating that the accused is exempt from legal authority and punishment
- decolorized — Simple past tense and past participle of decolorize.
- decolorizer — a substance that removes colour
- decompilers — Plural form of decompiler.