10-letter words containing s, e, r, i, c
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavillers' — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cease-fire — a temporary cessation of warfare by mutual agreement of the participants; truce
- ceasefires — Plural form of ceasefire.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- cemeteries — Plural form of cemetery.
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- censorship — Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- centigrams — Plural form of centigram.
- centistere — one 100th of a stere.
- centralise — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
- centralist — Centralist organizations govern a country or organize things using one central group of people who control and instruct everyone else.
- centrioles — Plural form of centriole.
- centronics — (company, hardware, printer) A company in Hudson N.H., USA, best known for designing the parallel interface for printers with the same name, found on many microcomputers.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceramicist — a person who makes ceramics.
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- cerebritis — an infection or inflammation of the brain
- ceremonies — Plural form of ceremony.
- cerevisiae — (informal) The species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer's yeast.
- ceriferous — producing or bearing wax
- certitudes — Plural form of certitude.
- ceruminous — earwax.
- cervicitis — inflammation of the neck of the uterus
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- chanceries — Plural form of chancery.
- charles ii — known as Charles the Bald. 823–877 ad, Holy Roman Emperor (875–877) and, as Charles I, king of France (843–877)
- charles iv — known as Charles the Fair. 1294–1328, king of France (1322–28): brother of Isabella of France, with whom he intrigued against her husband, Edward II of England
- charles ix — 1550–74, king of France (1560–74), son of Catherine de' Medici and Henry II: his reign was marked by war between Huguenots and Catholics
- charles vi — known as Charles the Mad or Charles the Well-Beloved. 1368–1422, king of France (1380–1422): defeated by Henry V of England at Agincourt (1415), he was forced by the Treaty of Troyes (1420) to recognize Henry as his successor
- charles xi — 1655–97, king of Sweden (1660–97), who established an absolute monarchy and defeated Denmark (1678)
- cheeriness — The state of being cheery.
- cheesewire — a piece of wire used for cutting cheese
- cherishing — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- cherubfish — a brilliantly colored butterflyfish, Centropyge argi, found in the West Indies: kept in home aquariums.
- chevaliers — Plural form of chevalier.
- chi-square — an inferential statistic common in survey research
- chichester — a city in S England, administrative centre of West Sussex: Roman ruins; 11th-century cathedral; Festival Theatre. Pop: 27 477 (2001)
- chickarees — Plural form of chickaree.
- childermas — Holy Innocents Day, Dec 28
- children's — a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl: books for children.
- chimaerism — the insertion of cells of a different genetic make-up into a fetus or embryo
- china rose — a rosaceous shrub, Rosa chinensis (or R. indica), with red, pink, or white fragrant flowers: the ancestor of many cultivated roses
- chinawares — dishes, ornaments, etc., made of china.
- chirpiness — The state or quality of being chirpy.
- chivalries — Plural form of chivalry.
- chloridise — to change into chloride