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11-letter words containing a, g, e

  • challenging — A challenging task or job requires great effort and determination.
  • chamber mug — a chamber pot.
  • chandelling — Present participle of chandelle.
  • chandlering — the work of a chandler
  • change down — When you change down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
  • change face — to rotate the telescope of a surveying instrument through 180° horizontally and vertically, taking a second sighting of the same object in order to reduce error
  • change feet — to put on different shoes, boots, etc
  • change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
  • changefully — In a changeful manner.
  • changelings — Plural form of changeling.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
  • changeround — the process of changing position
  • channelling — Architecture, Furniture. ornamentation with flutes or channels.
  • chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
  • chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • charge card — A charge card is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores. Compare credit card.
  • charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
  • chargrilled — Simple past tense and past participle of chargrill.
  • 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
  • chateauguay — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
  • che guevara — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.
  • checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
  • cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
  • chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
  • 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.
  • choreograph — When someone choreographs a ballet or other dance, they invent the steps and movements and tell the dancers how to perform them.
  • chugalugged — Simple past tense and past participle of chugalug.
  • cigar store — a retail store specializing in tobacco products, as cigars and cigarettes.
  • cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
  • clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
  • clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
  • clavigerous — bearing a key or club
  • clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
  • cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • clientelage — (dated) clientele; customers or patrons.
  • cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
  • 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
  • cling peach — a clingstone peach.
  • cloisonnage — cloisonné work
  • closed game — a relatively complex game involving closed ranks and files and permitting only nontactical positional manoeuvring
  • coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
  • coalignment — Alignment together.
  • coast range — a series of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America, extending from Baja California to SE Alaska.
  • coasteering — the sport of following a coastline by swimming, climbing, diving, and walking while wearing a wetsuit, a life jacket, and a helmet
  • coat hanger — A coat hanger is a curved piece of wood, metal, or plastic that you hang a piece of clothing on.
  • code dating — the system of marking products with the date when they were packed
  • cogenerated — Simple past tense and past participle of cogenerate.
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