11-letter words containing m, e, c
- centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
- centrosomes — Plural form of centrosome.
- centrosomic — Relating to the centrosome.
- cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
- cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
- ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
- ceramicists — Plural form of ceramicist.
- cerebellums — Plural form of cerebellum.
- cerebralism — the theory that physical phenomena arise from the action of the brain
- cerebriform — resembling the brain in texture or structure
- ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
- ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
- ceylon moss — a red East Indian seaweed, Gracilaria lichenoides, from which agar is made
- chaenomeles — any of a genus of deciduous shrubs within the family Rosaceae, native to East Asia
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
- chamaedorea — any of various small, slender palms of the genus Chamaedorea, several species of which are cultivated as houseplants.
- chamaephyte — a plant whose buds are close to the ground
- chamber mug — a chamber pot.
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
- chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
- chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
- chameleonic — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- championess — a female champion
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- charlemagne — ?742–814 ad, king of the Franks (768–814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800–814). He conquered the Lombards (774), the Saxons (772–804), and the Avars (791–799). He instituted many judicial and ecclesiastical reforms, and promoted commerce and agriculture throughout his empire, which extended from the Ebro to the Elbe. Under Alcuin his court at Aachen became the centre of a revival of learning
- charmlessly — in a charmless manner
- chastenment — the process of chastening
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- checkmarked — to indicate by a check mark.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- cheese mite — a white soft-bodied free-living mite, Tyrophagus (or Tyroglyphus) longior, sometimes found in decaying cheese
- cheesemaker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- chemisettes — Plural form of chemisette.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- chemistries — Plural form of chemistry.
- chemoreflex — a reflex caused by a chemical stimulus.
- chemosensor — A cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action.
- chemosmosis — chemical action between substances that are separated by a semipermeable membrane
- chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place