11-letter words containing a, c, m, e
- chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- championess — a female champion
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- charlemagne — ?742–814 ad, king of the Franks (768–814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800–814). He conquered the Lombards (774), the Saxons (772–804), and the Avars (791–799). He instituted many judicial and ecclesiastical reforms, and promoted commerce and agriculture throughout his empire, which extended from the Ebro to the Elbe. Under Alcuin his court at Aachen became the centre of a revival of learning
- charmlessly — in a charmless manner
- chastenment — the process of chastening
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- checkmarked — to indicate by a check mark.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- cheesemaker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- chemotactic — oriented movement toward or away from a chemical stimulus.
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
- chol hamoed — the middle days of the festivals of Passover and Sukkoth, on which necessary work is permitted
- choreodrama — dance drama performed by a group
- chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
- chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
- chrominance — the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity
- cine camera — a camera in which a strip of film moves past the lens, usually to give 16 or 24 exposures per second, thus enabling moving pictures to be taken
- 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
- cinematical — Of or pertaining to the cinema; cinematic.
- cinematized — Simple past tense and past participle of cinematize.
- clam shells — the shell of a clam.
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- clericalism — a policy of upholding the power of the clergy
- clickstream — a record of the path taken by users through a website, enabling designers to access the use being made of their website
- climacteric — a critical event or period
- climategate — the scandal surrounding the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit whose researchers were accused of manipulating statistics on climate change to make global warming appear less of a threat
- closed game — a relatively complex game involving closed ranks and files and permitting only nontactical positional manoeuvring
- coalignment — Alignment together.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- codominance — Ecology. being one of two or more species that are equally dominant in a biotic community: a forest in which oak and hickory are codominant.