10-letter words containing s, i, l, c, a
- calamities — a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
- calcimines — Plural form of calcimine.
- calcinosis — the abnormal deposition of calcium salts in the tissues of the body
- calcsinter — travertine.
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- caliginous — dark; dim
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- calixtus i — Saint, a.d. c160–222, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 218–222.
- calliopsis — coreopsis
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- calumnious — of or using calumny
- camarillas — Plural form of camarilla.
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- cameralism — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- canalising — Present participle of canalise.
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- canonicals — the vestments worn by clergy when officiating
- cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.
- cantilenas — Plural form of cantilena.
- canvaslike — resembling canvas
- cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capitalise — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
- capitalist — A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism.
- capsizable — able to be capsized
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- capsulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsulize.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- caramanlis — Konstantinos [kawn-stahn-dee-naws] /ˌkɔn stɑnˈdi nɔs/ (Show IPA), 1907–98, Greek politician: prime minister 1955–63, 1974–80; president 1980–85, 1990–95.
- caramelise — (cooking) To convert sugar into caramel.
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carl lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- carnassial — of, relating to, or designating the last upper premolar and first lower molar teeth of carnivores, which have sharp edges for tearing flesh
- carnelians — Plural form of carnelian.
- cartilages — Plural form of cartilage.
- cascarilla — a West Indian euphorbiaceous shrub, Croton eluteria, whose bitter aromatic bark is used as a tonic
- cash limit — a limit imposed as a method of curtailing overall expenditure without specifying the precise means of budgetary control
- castellani — Plural form of castellanus.
- castlelike — a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
- castor oil — Castor oil is a thick yellow oil that is obtained from the seeds of the castor oil plant. It has a very unpleasant taste and in former times was used as a medicine.