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11-letter words containing e, u

  • chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
  • cherry plum — a small widely planted Asian rosaceous tree, Prunus cerasifera, with white flowers and red or yellow cherry-like fruit
  • chewing gum — Chewing gum is a kind of sweet that you can chew for a long time. You do not swallow it.
  • chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
  • chicken run — the departure of white residents from South Africa
  • chilaquiles — (in Mexican cooking) a dish of fried tortilla strips typically topped with a spicy tomato sauce and cheese.
  • child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
  • chili sauce — a spiced sauce of chopped tomatoes, green and red sweet peppers, onions, etc.
  • chiliburger — a hamburger served with a topping of chili con carne.
  • chilled out — relaxed
  • chinese lug — a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.
  • chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
  • chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
  • chloroquine — a synthetic drug administered orally to treat malaria. Formula: C18H26ClN3
  • 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.
  • chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
  • chuck-berryCharles Edward Anderson ("Chuck") born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
  • chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
  • chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
  • chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
  • chug report — (humour)   From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
  • chugalugged — Simple past tense and past participle of chugalug.
  • chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
  • church mode — a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
  • church rate — (formerly in England and Ireland) a compulsory assessment imposed on the parishioners' holdings of houses or land in order to repair the parish church and maintain its services.
  • church text — a heavy typeface in Gothic style
  • churchgoers — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
  • churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
  • chyliferous — containing chyle
  • chymiferous — containing chyme
  • cineritious — See cinereous.
  • cinquecento — the 16th century, esp in reference to Italian art, architecture, or literature
  • cinquefoils — Plural form of cinquefoil.
  • circuitries — Plural form of circuitry.
  • circularise — (British) alternative spelling of circularize.
  • circularize — to distribute circulars to
  • circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
  • circumcised — (of an man) Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
  • circumciser — to remove the prepuce of (a male), especially as a religious rite.
  • circumcises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumcise.
  • circumcized — Simple past tense and past participle of circumcize.
  • circumflect — to emphasize with a circumflex accent
  • circumfused — Simple past tense and past participle of circumfuse.
  • circumfuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumfuse.
  • circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
  • circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
  • circumvolve — to (cause to) turn around
  • cire perdue — a method of casting bronze, in which a mould is formed around a wax pattern, which is subsequently melted and drained away
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