11-letter words containing a, n, e, r
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- calc-sinter — travertine
- calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
- calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
- calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
- camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
- cameroonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republic of Cameroon or its inhabitants
- camino real — a main road; highway.
- campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
- campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
- can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
- canal barge — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- canary seed — birdseed.
- cancer gene — oncogene.
- canceration — the process of becoming cancerous
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- cane-cutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
- canisterise — to put into canisters
- canisterize — to put into canisters
- canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- canoe birch — paper birch.
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.