11-letter words containing s, a, l, c
- corpuscular — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- cottontails — Plural form of cottontail.
- cotylosaurs — Plural form of cotylosaur.
- counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
- cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- craftsmanly — Befitting a craftsman.
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- cranesbills — Plural form of cranesbill.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
- criminalese — the jargon of criminals
- criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
- criminalist — a person who collects and analyses forensic evidence from the scene of a crime
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crystal set — an early form of radio receiver having a crystal detector to demodulate the radio signals but no amplifier, therefore requiring earphones
- crystal tea — a bog shrub, Ledum palustre, of the heath family, found from the North Temperate Zone to the Arctic Circle, having leaves that are rust-colored and hairy beneath with rolled margins, and dense clusters of white flowers.
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize.
- crystallike — a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- crystallise — to form into crystals; cause to assume crystalline form.
- crystallite — any of the minute rudimentary or imperfect crystals occurring in many glassy rocks
- crystallize — If you crystallize an opinion or idea, or if it crystallizes, it becomes fixed and definite in someone's mind.
- crystallog. — crystallography
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- curialistic — of or relating to curialism or curialists
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
- cyclostylar — (architecture) Of or pertaining to a cyclostyle (a circular group of columns without a core).
- cynicalness — The state or quality of being cynical.
- cystoplasty — (surgery) Repair to the urinary bladder.
- cytoclastic — destructive to cells.
- cytoplasmic — the cell substance between the cell membrane and the nucleus, containing the cytosol, organelles, cytoskeleton, and various particles.
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write