11-letter words containing is
- circularise — (British) alternative spelling of circularize.
- circumcised — (of an man) Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
- circumciser — to remove the prepuce of (a male), especially as a religious rite.
- circumcises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumcise.
- cisatlantic — on this (the speaker's) side of the Atlantic
- ciscaucasia — the part of Caucasia north of the Caucasus Mountains
- citharistic — relating to the cithar
- cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
- clarinetist — A clarinetist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- classicisms — Plural form of classicism.
- classicists — Plural form of classicist.
- clavecinist — a person who plays the clavecin
- cleisthenes — 6th century bc, Athenian statesman: democratized the political structure of Athens
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
- clericalism — a policy of upholding the power of the clergy
- clericalist — Of or pertaining to clericalism.
- clicktivism — a policy of using the internet to take direct and often militant action to achieve a political or social aim
- clientelism — A political system based on personal relations rather than personal merits.
- climatising — to acclimate to a new environment.
- cloisonnage — cloisonné work
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- closefisted — stingy
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- coarse fish — a freshwater fish that is not a member of the salmon family
- coccidiosis — any disease of domestic and other animals caused by introcellular parasitic protozoa of the order Coccidia. One species, Isospora hominis, can infect humans
- coenobitism — the practice of coenobites
- coexistence — The coexistence of one thing with another is the fact that they exist together at the same time or in the same place.
- cognitivism — the meta-ethical thesis that moral judgments state facts and so are either true or false
- cognitivist — A person who believes or works in cognitive grammar.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- collisional — of or relating to a collision or collisions
- colocynthis — Obsolete form of colocynth.
- colonialism — Colonialism is the practice by which a powerful country directly controls less powerful countries and uses their resources to increase its own power and wealth.
- colonialist — Colonialist means relating to colonialism.
- coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
- columnistic — belonging or relating to a columnist
- comisserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commis chef — an apprentice chef
- commiserate — If you commiserate with someone, you show them pity or sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to them.
- commissaire — (in professional cycle racing) a referee who travels in an open-topped car with the riders to witness any infringement of the rules
- commissions — Plural form of commission.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- commissures — Plural form of commissure.
- commoditise — To transform into a commodity.
- common lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- communalise — Alternative form of communalize.
- communalism — a system or theory of government in which the state is seen as a loose federation of self-governing communities
- communalist — An advocate of communalism.