11-letter words containing a, b
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- chibougamau — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chickabiddy — a term of endearment, esp for a child
- chief rabbi — the chief religious minister of a national Jewish community
- chilblained — Afflicted with a chilblain.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- child labor — the regular, full-time employment of children under a legally defined age in factories, stores, offices, etc.: in the U.S., the minimum legal age under federal law is 16 (in hazardous occupations, 18)
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chockablock — pulled so tight as to have the blocks touching
- chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
- chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
- chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
- cinnabarine — Resembling, containing, or relating to cinnabar.
- circumbasal — surrounding the base.
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- clarabellas — Plural form of clarabella.
- clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- client base — A business's client base is the same as its customer base.
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- close brace — right brace
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- cobalt bomb — a cobalt-60 device used in radiotherapy
- cocelebrant — One of two or more celebrants involved with the same occasion.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
- cocoa beach — a town in E central Florida.
- codebreaker — A person who solves a code or codes.
- coffee bean — Coffee beans are small dark-brown beans that are roasted and ground to make coffee. They are the seeds of the coffee plant.
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitated — cohabit.
- cohabitates — cohabit.
- cohabitator — One who cohabits.
- coilability — the ability to be coiled
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- collaborate — When one person or group collaborates with another, they work together, especially on a book or on some research.
- collapsable — capable of collapsing or of being collapsed, as for carrying or storing.
- collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
- collarbones — Plural form of collarbone.
- collectable — A collectable object is one which is valued very highly by collectors because it is rare or beautiful.
- collembolan — any small primitive wingless insect of the order Collembola, which comprises the springtails
- colliquable — capable of dissolving
- colonizable — Capable of being colonized.