11-letter words containing a, m, e, r, i, c
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- compatriate — Misspelling of compatriot.
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comraderies — camaraderie.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- confirmable — Capable of being checked, verifiable.
- confirmance — (obsolete) confirmation.
- conterminal — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- crateriform — shaped like a crater
- creationism — Creationism is the belief that the account of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and that the theory of evolution is incorrect.
- cremaillere — a trench or fortification constructed in an indented or saw-tooth pattern
- crematories — Plural form of crematory.
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crimean war — the war fought mainly in the Crimea between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Sardinia, and Britain on the other (1853-56)
- criminalese — the jargon of criminals
- criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
- criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- cryptomeria — a coniferous tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of China and Japan, with curved needle-like leaves and small round cones: family Taxodiaceae
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- demarcating — Present participle of demarcate.
- demarcation — Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
- demarcative — (of a phonological feature) serving to indicate the beginning or end of each successive word in an utterance, as word-initial stress in Hungarian or penultimate stress in Polish.
- democracies — Plural form of democracy.
- democratise — To make democratic.
- democratism — The principles or spirit of a democracy.
- democratize — If a country or a system is democratized, it is made democratic.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- disc camera — a camera that accepts a film cartridge in the form of a rotatable disc with film frames mounted around the outer edge.
- discardment — the act or process of discarding
- disclaimers — Plural form of disclaimer.
- eames chair — Also called LCM chair. a side chair designed by Charles Eames in 1946, having a slender tubular steel frame with a seat and back of molded plywood panels.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- elastomeric — Of, pertaining to, or containing elastomers.