11-letter words containing s, c, r, o, l, i
- 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
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- color solid — a three-dimensional representation of colors according to the relationship between their hue, value, and saturation.
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- commercials — Plural form of commercial.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- compulsitor — a thing, such as a mandate, that compels
- conirostral — (of a bird) having a bill shaped like a cone
- consigliere — a trusted adviser, esp in a criminal organization
- consiglieri — Plural form of consigliere.
- consolatrix — a woman who consoles
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- cor anglais — a woodwind instrument, the alto of the oboe family. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range: two and a half octaves upwards from E on the third space of the bass staff
- cordialness — The state or quality of being cordial.
- cordilleras — mountain system of W North America, including all mountains between the E Rockies & the Pacific coast
- corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
- corollaries — Plural form of corollary.
- corpus vile — a person or thing fit only to be the object of an experiment
- corrosively — In a corrosive manner.
- corticolous — living or growing on the surface of bark
- councillors — Plural form of councillor.
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- decompilers — Plural form of decompiler.
- disc floret — any of the small tubular flowers at the centre of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy
- discifloral — having flowers in which the receptacle is expanded into a conspicuous disk, as in composite plants.
- disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- discoloring — Present participle of discolor.
- discolorous — (botany, of leaves) Having upper and lower surfaces of different colours.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- drill corps — drill team.
- drillstocks — Plural form of drillstock.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- elastomeric — Of, pertaining to, or containing elastomers.