10-letter words containing s, i, r, c
- circuitous — A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
- circulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circulate.
- circumcise — If a boy or man is circumcised, the loose skin at the end of his penis is cut off.
- circumfuse — to pour or spread (a liquid, powder, etc) around
- circumpose — to position around, or within an encircled place
- cis person — a person who is cisgender or cissexual.
- cistercian — a member of a Christian order of monks and nuns founded in 1098, which follows an especially strict form of the Benedictine rule
- citronalis — lemon verbena.
- civilizers — Plural form of civilizer.
- clairseach — an ancient Irish and Scottish harp.
- classifier — a person or thing that classifies.
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.
- clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
- cloistered — If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you.
- cloisterer — a person who lives in a cloister
- cloistress — a nun
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- clustering — cluster
- cnidarians — Plural form of cnidarian.
- coarsening — Present participle of coarsen.
- coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
- coconspire — (intransitive) To conspire together with.
- codiscover — to discover jointly
- coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
- coiffurist — a person who styles hair, especially for women.
- coinsuring — Present participle of coinsure.
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- collieries — Plural form of colliery.
- colonisers — Plural form of coloniser.
- colonizers — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- coloristic — having to do with color or the use of color
- colorslide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- colourings — Plural form of colouring.
- come first — If you say that someone or something comes first for a particular person, you mean they treat or consider that person or thing as more important than anything else.
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commissars — Plural form of commissar.
- commissary — A commissary is a shop that provides food and equipment in a place such as a military camp or a prison.
- commissure — a band of tissue linking two parts or organs, such as the nervous tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain in vertebrates
- comparison — When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
- compersion — The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.
- compositor — A compositor is a person who arranges the text and pictures of a book, magazine, or newspaper before it is printed.
- comprising — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- compromise — A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concierges — Plural form of concierge.