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11-letter words starting with c

  • call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
  • call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
  • call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
  • call market — the market for lending call money.
  • call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
  • call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
  • call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
  • callanetics — a system of exercise involving frequent repetition of small muscular movements and squeezes, designed to improve muscle tone
  • callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
  • calligramme — words arranged to form a picture
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • callimachus — late 5th century bc, Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
  • callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
  • callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
  • callistus i — Calixtus I.
  • callousness — made hard; hardened.
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • calorically — in a caloric manner
  • calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
  • calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
  • calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • camaraderie — Camaraderie is a feeling of trust and friendship among a group of people who have usually known each other for a long time or gone through some kind of experience together.
  • cambric tea — a hot drink of milk, sugar, and water or, often, weak tea
  • camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
  • camel grass — a grass, Cymbopogon schoenanthus, of southern Asia and northern Africa, having fragrant foliage.
  • camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • cameo glass — an ornamental glass in which two layers, often blue and opaque white, have been cased, and on which the design has been treated in the manner of a cameo.
  • camera crew — a group of people who are involved in the operation of a film camera
  • camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
  • camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
  • cameroonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republic of Cameroon or its inhabitants
  • camino real — a main road; highway.
  • camouflaged — concealed or disguised
  • camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
  • camouflagic — relating to camouflage
  • camp robber — Canada jay
  • campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
  • campaigning — Military. military operations for a specific objective. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
  • campaniform — shaped like a bell
  • campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
  • campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
  • campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
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