10-letter words containing c, e, n, t
- chasteness — The state of being chaste; chastity.
- chastening — A chastening experience makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
- chatelaine — A chatelaine is the female owner, or the wife of the owner, of a castle or large country house.
- chatelains — Plural form of chatelain.
- chattering — rapid and continuous talk
- chatterton — Thomas. 1752–70, British poet; author of spurious medieval verse and prose: he committed suicide at the age of 17
- chattiness — characterized by friendly and informal talk or writing, often about minor or personal matters: a long, chatty letter from my sister.
- cheapernet — (networking) (Or "thinnet") A colloquial term for thin-wire Ethernet (10base2) that uses RG58 coaxial cable instead of the full-spec "Yellow Cable".
- check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
- cheltenham — a town in W England, in central Gloucestershire: famous for its schools, racecourse, and saline springs (discovered in 1716). Pop: 98 875 (2001)
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
- chervonets — (formerly) a Soviet monetary unit and gold coin worth ten roubles
- chesterton — G(ilbert) K(eith). 1874–1936, English essayist, novelist, poet, and critic
- chestiness — The quality of being chesty.
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chief town — a town or city that is the administrative centre of a region
- chieftains — Plural form of chieftain.
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- china tree — chinaberry (sense 1)
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chittering — a chirping noise
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- christened — to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- chwang-tse — Chuang-tzu (def 1).
- cimetidine — a drug used to suppress the formation of acid by the stomach and so to encourage the healing of gastric and duodenal ulcers. Formula: C10H16-N6S
- cinch belt — a wide belt of elastic, leather, or fabric with a clasp or lacing in front, worn tightly to make the waist look smaller.
- cincinnate — (of hair) curled or in ringlets
- cinematics — the art of making motion pictures; cinematography.
- cinematise — (transitive) To adapt (an event or story) for the cinema.
- cinematize — to adapt (a novel or play) for cinema
- cineration — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
- cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
- cispontine — on the near side of the bridge
- cistercian — a member of a Christian order of monks and nuns founded in 1098, which follows an especially strict form of the Benedictine rule
- citizeness — a woman citizen
- citizenish — Of the nature of citizens.
- citizenize — to cause to become a citizen
- citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- citrulline — an amino acid that occurs in watermelons and is an intermediate in the formation of urea. Formula: NH2CONH(CH2)3CHNH2COOH
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.