11-letter words containing a, c, e, s, i, n
- castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
- catagenesis — the retrogressive evolution of a species. Compare anagenesis (def 1).
- catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
- catechising — Present participle of catechise.
- catonsville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- cattishness — The property of being cattish.
- cauligenous — originating or protruding from the stem of a plant
- causticness — The state or quality of being caustic.
- cenesthesia — the mass of undifferentiated sensations that make one aware of the body and its condition, as in the feeling of well-being or illness
- centenaries — Plural form of centenary.
- centennials — Plural form of centennial.
- centralised — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of centralise.
- centralists — a centralizing system; centralization.
- centralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of centralize.
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
- certainties — Plural form of certainty.
- chaffinches — Plural form of chaffinch.
- chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- championess — a female champion
- chandeliers — Plural form of chandelier.
- chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
- changelings — Plural form of changeling.
- channelised — Simple past tense and past participle of channelise.
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- chatelaines — Plural form of chatelaine.
- 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)
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chicaneries — Plural form of chicanery.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- china aster — a related Chinese plant, Callistephus chinensis, widely cultivated for its showy brightly coloured flowers
- china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
- chindonesia — China, India, and Indonesia: seen collectively as the most important developing economies with the best growth markets for investors
- chinese tag — a variety of the game of tag in which the tagged player must hold one hand on the part of the body where he or she was tagged.
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- clandestine — Something that is clandestine is hidden or kept secret, often because it is illegal.
- clarinetist — A clarinetist is someone who plays the clarinet.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clavecinist — a person who plays the clavecin