10-letter words containing a, n, c, t, i
- chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
- chartering — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- chastening — A chastening experience makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
- chastising — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chatelaine — A chatelaine is the female owner, or the wife of the owner, of a castle or large country house.
- chatelains — Plural form of chatelain.
- chattering — rapid and continuous talk
- chattiness — characterized by friendly and informal talk or writing, often about minor or personal matters: a long, chatty letter from my sister.
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chieftains — Plural form of chieftain.
- chilognath — any member of the diplopod subclass Chilognatha, including millipedes having exoskeletons heavily sclerotized with calcium carbonate.
- chin strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- chin-strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- china tree — chinaberry (sense 1)
- chinstraps — Plural form of chinstrap.
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chittagong — a port in E Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal: industrial centre. Pop: 4 171 000 (2005 est)
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- ciguatoxin — a toxin found in seafood
- cincinnate — (of hair) curled or in ringlets
- cincinnati — a city in SW Ohio, on the Ohio River. Pop: 317 361 (2003 est)
- cinematics — the art of making motion pictures; cinematography.
- cinematise — (transitive) To adapt (an event or story) for the cinema.
- cinematize — to adapt (a novel or play) for cinema
- cineration — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
- cistercian — a member of a Christian order of monks and nuns founded in 1098, which follows an especially strict form of the Benedictine rule
- citational — pertaining to citation
- citronalis — lemon verbena.
- citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- clactonian — one of the Lower Palaeolithic cultures found in England, characterized by the use of chopper tools
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- claudicant — (medicine) limping.
- claymation — the techniques of animation applied to clay models
- clinostats — Plural form of clinostat.
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- co-captain — a joint captain
- coalitions — Plural form of coalition.
- coaptation — the joining or reuniting of two surfaces, esp the ends of a broken bone or the edges of a wound
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- cocreation — Joint creation.
- codominant — (of genes) having both alleles expressed equally in the phenotype of the organism
- cogitating — to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
- cogitation — concerted thought or reflection; meditation; contemplation: After hours of cogitation he came up with a new proposal.
- cohabitant — a person living together with another or others
- cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.