11-letter words containing b, a, c, n, e
- cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
- 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.
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- cablevision — cable television.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- can't abide — If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- canal barge — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- cancellable — able to be cancelled
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- cannibalise — to subject to cannibalism.
- cannibalize — If you cannibalize something, you take it to pieces and use it to make something else.
- cannon bone — a bone in the legs of horses and other hoofed animals consisting of greatly elongated fused metatarsals or metacarpals
- canoe birch — paper birch.
- capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
- cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
- cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
- carabineers — Plural form of carabineer.
- carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
- carabiniere — an Italian national policeman
- carabinieri — a member of the Italian national police force, organized as a military unit and charged with maintaining public security and order as well as assisting local police.
- carbamidine — guanidine.
- carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
- carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
- carbonatite — a rare intrusive or extrusive igneous rock, mostly found in Africa, that contains a high proportion of carbonate minerals
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
- castor bean — the seed of this plant
- celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
- celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
- celebutante — a young woman from a wealthy background who becomes a celebrity
- celtiberian — a member of a Celtic people (Celtiberi) who inhabited the Iberian peninsula during classical times
- 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
- centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
- centrobaric — of or concerned with a centre of gravity
- cerebrating — Present participle of cerebrate.
- cerebration — the act of thinking; consideration; thought
- chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
- chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
- channelbill — a large, gray Australian cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, with a grooved bill.
- chantefable — (in medieval French literature) a prose narrative interspersed with verse.
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar