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

  • authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
  • autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
  • backbencher — A backbencher is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in their political party.
  • backbenches — The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches.
  • backchannel — an unofficial or covert means of conveying information, originally or esp in political or diplomatic circles
  • backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
  • baron-cohen — Sacha. born 1970, British television and film comedian, best known for his creation of the characters Ali G and Borat
  • bellyaching — constant complaining
  • bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
  • bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
  • benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
  • bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
  • binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
  • cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
  • caddishness — the state of being caddish
  • calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
  • calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
  • candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
  • canned heat — fuel packaged to be used in small cans for heating, as with chafing dishes or in portable stoves.
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
  • cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
  • case-harden — to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment
  • casehardens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caseharden.
  • cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
  • casing shoe — A casing shoe is the bottom of the casing string, including the cement around it.
  • catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
  • catechising — Present participle of catechise.
  • catechizing — Present participle of catechize.
  • catechumens — Plural form of catechumen.
  • catherine i — ?1684–1727, second wife of Peter the Great, whom she succeeded as empress of Russia (1725–27)
  • cattishness — The property of being cattish.
  • cenesthesia — the mass of undifferentiated sensations that make one aware of the body and its condition, as in the feeling of well-being or illness
  • centrarchid — (zoology) Any member of the Centrarchidae.
  • centre half — a defender who plays in the middle of the defence
  • cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • chaenomeles — any of a genus of deciduous shrubs within the family Rosaceae, native to East Asia
  • chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
  • chaffinches — Plural form of chaffinch.
  • chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
  • 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
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