11-letter words containing c, e, n, t
- centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
- centrosomes — Plural form of centrosome.
- centrosomic — Relating to the centrosome.
- centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- cerebrating — Present participle of cerebrate.
- cerebration — the act of thinking; consideration; thought
- certainties — Plural form of certainty.
- chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
- chain grate — a type of mechanical stoker for a furnace, in which the grate consists of an endless chain that draws the solid fuel into the furnace as it rotates
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
- chain-react — to undergo a chain reaction
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- change feet — to put on different shoes, boots, etc
- chansonette — a little song
- chantefable — (in medieval French literature) a prose narrative interspersed with verse.
- chanterelle — any saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus of the genus Cantharellus, esp C. cibarius, having an edible yellow funnel-shaped mushroom: family Cantharellaceae
- chanticleer — a name for a cock, used esp in fables
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- chastenment — the process of chastening
- chatelaines — Plural form of chatelaine.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- cherishment — the act or process of cherishing
- cherrystone — a small or not fully-grown edible clam of the genus Mercenaria, found in the waters off the Atlantic coast of North America
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
- chieftaincy — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- 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.
- 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.
- chingtechen — Jingdezhen.
- chintziness — The quality of being chintzy.
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chitterling — part of the small intestine of swine
- chloanthite — a form of nickel arsenide having commercial importance as a nickel ore
- 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.
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.