11-letter words containing b, c, e
- cerebroside — any glycolipid in which N-acyl sphingosine is combined with glucose or galactose: occurs in the myelin sheaths of nerves
- certifiable — If you describe someone as certifiable, you think that their behaviour is extremely unreasonable or foolish.
- certifiably — capable of being certified.
- chair table — an article of furniture, produced especially in colonial America, that can serve as either a table or a chair, having, as a chair, a large, usually circular, hinged back that can be pulled down and rested on the arms to form a tabletop.
- chaleur bay — an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between NE New Brunswick and SE Quebec, in SE Canada: rich fishing ground. About 85 miles (135 km) long; 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
- chamber mug — a chamber pot.
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- 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.
- chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
- chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
- channelbill — a large, gray Australian cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, with a grooved bill.
- chantefable — (in medieval French literature) a prose narrative interspersed with verse.
- charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- charbroiler — a grill or other equipment used for charbroiling
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- checker cab — a taxi with a checked pattern as part of the trim
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
- cheque stub — the part of a cheque that is retained as a record of its purpose
- cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- cherry bomb — a powerful firecracker that is shaped like a cherry
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- chief rabbi — the chief religious minister of a national Jewish community
- chifforobes — Plural form of chifforobe.
- chilblained — Afflicted with a chilblain.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- child bride — a very young bride, esp when the groom is considerably older
- chile-bells — a vine, Lapageria rosea, native to Chile, having leathery evergreen leaves and showy reddish flowers: the national flower of Chile.
- chiliburger — a hamburger served with a topping of chili con carne.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chromophobe — a cell that does not take a stain easily
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
- chuck-berry — Charles Edward Anderson ("Chuck") born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- cinnabarine — Resembling, containing, or relating to cinnabar.
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- clarabellas — Plural form of clarabella.
- clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders