11-letter words containing a, n, c, t
- centaurette — (fantasy) A female centaur.
- centenarian — A centenarian is someone who is a hundred years old or older.
- centenaries — Plural form of centenary.
- centennials — Plural form of centennial.
- center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
- centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
- centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
- centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
- centralised — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of centralise.
- centralists — a centralizing system; centralization.
- centralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralizer — A centralizer is a device fitted with a hinged collar to keep the casing or liner in the center of the wellbore.
- centralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of centralize.
- centrarchid — (zoology) Any member of the Centrarchidae.
- centre half — a defender who plays in the middle of the defence
- centre pass — a push or hit made in any direction to start the game or to restart the game after a goal has been scored
- centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
- centrifical — Misspelling of centrifugal.
- centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- centrobaric — of or concerned with a centre of gravity
- centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
- centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- cerebrating — Present participle of cerebrate.
- cerebration — the act of thinking; consideration; thought
- certainties — Plural form of certainty.
- cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
- chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
- chain grate — a type of mechanical stoker for a furnace, in which the grate consists of an endless chain that draws the solid fuel into the furnace as it rotates
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- 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-react — to undergo a chain reaction
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- change feet — to put on different shoes, boots, etc
- chansonette — a little song
- chantefable — (in medieval French literature) a prose narrative interspersed with verse.
- chanterelle — any saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus of the genus Cantharellus, esp C. cibarius, having an edible yellow funnel-shaped mushroom: family Cantharellaceae
- chanticleer — a name for a cock, used esp in fables
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- charlatanic — of or relating to a charlatan
- charlatanry — charlatanism.
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- chastenment — the process of chastening