11-letter words containing a, c, n, e, m
- chameleonic — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- championess — a female champion
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- 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
- chastenment — the process of chastening
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- 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.
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- 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.
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- coalignment — Alignment together.
- 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.
- coenenchyma — gelatinous material uniting the polyps of an anthozoan colony
- coenzymatic — of or relating to coenzymes
- coffee name — Your coffee name is a name that you give in some situations because it is simpler than your real name.
- cognominate — of or relating to a cognomen
- collembolan — any small primitive wingless insect of the order Collembola, which comprises the springtails
- collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- combat zone — (in warfare) an area where fighting is taking place
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- combinative — resulting from being, tending to be, or able to be joined or mixed together
- come and go — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- comicalness — The state or quality of being comical.
- command key — (on a computer keyboard) a key used when executing commands
- commandable — able to be commanded
- commandeers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commandeer.
- commandment — The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of behaviour which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, people should obey.
- commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
- commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
- commendator — a person who holds a commendam
- commensally — In a commensal manner.
- commentable — a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
- commentated — Simple past tense and past participle of commentate.
- commentator — A commentator is a broadcaster who gives a radio or television commentary on an event.
- comminative — comminatory
- common name — a noun that may be preceded by an article or other limiting modifier and that denotes any or all of a class of entities and not an individual, as man, city, horse, music.