11-letter words containing c, h, e, n
- childminder — A childminder is someone whose job it is to look after children when the children's parents are away or are at work. Childminders usually work in their own homes.
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- chimneylike — resembling a chimney
- 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 ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
- chinese lug — a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.
- chinese red — a bright red colour
- 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
- chingtechen — Jingdezhen.
- chinoiserie — a style of decorative or fine art based on imitations of Chinese motifs
- chintziness — The quality of being chintzy.
- 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
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chisellings — a series of chiselled or engraved markings
- chitterling — part of the small intestine of swine
- chloanthite — a form of nickel arsenide having commercial importance as a nickel ore
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chlordecone — a highly toxic pesticide, C 10 H 10 O, causing nerve damage in humans, that is believed to contaminate waterways: no longer widely used.
- 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.
- chlorine 36 — the radioactive isotope of chlorine having a mass number 36 and a half-life of about 440,000 years, used chiefly as a tracer.
- chloroprene — a colourless liquid derivative of butadiene that is used in making neoprene rubbers; 2-chloro-1,2-butadiene. Formula: CH2:CHCCl:CH2
- chloroquine — a synthetic drug administered orally to treat malaria. Formula: C18H26ClN3
- chlorphenol — chlorophenol.
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- 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
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- cholesterin — a sterol, C 27 H 46 O, that occurs in all animal tissues, especially in the brain, spinal cord, and adipose tissue, functioning chiefly as a protective agent in the skin and myelin sheaths of nerve cells, a detoxifier in the bloodstream, and as a precursor of many steroids: deposits of cholesterol form in certain pathological conditions, as gallstones and atherosclerotic plaques.
- cholinergic — denoting nerve fibres that release acetylcholine when stimulated
- chondrified — Simple past tense and past participle of chondrify.
- chondrocyte — A cell that makes up the tissue of cartilage.
- chordophone — any musical instrument producing sounds through the vibration of strings, such as the piano, harp, violin, or guitar
- chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
- chou en-lai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949–58) and premier (1949–76)
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- christening — A christening is a Christian ceremony in which a baby is made a member of the Christian church and is officially given his or her name. Compare baptism.
- christingle — (in Britain) a Christian service for children held shortly before Christmas, in which each child is given a decorated fruit with a lighted candle in it
- 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
- chromogenic — producing colour
- chroniclers — Plural form of chronicler.