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11-letter words containing c, a, n, i, e

  • chandlering — the work of a chandler
  • changelings — Plural form of changeling.
  • channelbill — a large, gray Australian cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, with a grooved bill.
  • channelised — Simple past tense and past participle of channelise.
  • channelized — Simple past tense and past participle of channelize.
  • channelling — Architecture, Furniture. ornamentation with flutes or channels.
  • chansonnier — a writer of chansons
  • chanticleer — a name for a cock, used esp in fables
  • chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
  • chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
  • charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
  • chatelaines — Plural form of chatelaine.
  • checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
  • 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)
  • chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
  • chicaneries — Plural form of chicanery.
  • chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
  • chickenhead — (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio; by extension, an unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
  • chieftaincy — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain
  • chilblained — Afflicted with a chilblain.
  • chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
  • chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
  • china aster — a related Chinese plant, Callistephus chinensis, widely cultivated for its showy brightly coloured flowers
  • china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
  • china white — a very potent form of synthetic heroin.
  • chindonesia — China, India, and Indonesia: seen collectively as the most important developing economies with the best growth markets for investors
  • chinese tag — a variety of the game of tag in which the tagged player must hold one hand on the part of the body where he or she was tagged.
  • chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
  • chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
  • chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
  • chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
  • chloanthite — a form of nickel arsenide having commercial importance as a nickel ore
  • chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
  • chlorinated — Chlorinated water, for example drinking water or water in a swimming pool, has been cleaned by adding chlorine to it.
  • chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
  • choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
  • chou en-lai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949–58) and premier (1949–76)
  • chrominance — the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity
  • cine camera — a camera in which a strip of film moves past the lens, usually to give 16 or 24 exposures per second, thus enabling moving pictures to be taken
  • cinefaction — (obsolete, rare) cineration; reduction to ashes.
  • cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
  • cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
  • cinematical — Of or pertaining to the cinema; cinematic.
  • cinematized — Simple past tense and past participle of cinematize.
  • cinnabarine — Resembling, containing, or relating to cinnabar.
  • cinnarizine — a drug principally used to control vomiting caused by motion sickness
  • circinately — In a circinate fashion.
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