11-letter words containing r, i, c
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- 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.
- chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- chandeliers — Plural form of chandelier.
- chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
- chandlering — the work of a chandler
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- chanticleer — a name for a cock, used esp in fables
- chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- characinoid — of or like a characin
- charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- charbroiler — a grill or other equipment used for charbroiling
- charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
- charcuterie — cooked cold meats
- charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chargrilled — Simple past tense and past participle of chargrill.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- charioteers — Plural form of charioteer.
- charismatic — A charismatic person attracts, influences, and inspires people by their personal qualities.
- charityware — careware
- charlatanic — of or relating to a charlatan
- charles iii — known as Charles the Fat. 839–888 ad, Holy Roman Emperor (881–887) and, as Charles II, king of France (884–887). He briefly reunited the empire of Charlemagne
- charles vii — 1403–61, king of France (1422–61), son of Charles VI. He was excluded from the French throne by the Treaty of Troyes, but following Joan of Arc's victory over the English at Orléans (1429), was crowned
- charles xii — 1682–1718, king of Sweden (1697–1718), who inflicted defeats on Denmark, Russia, and Poland during the Great Northern War (1700–21)
- charles xiv — the title as king of Sweden and Norway of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- chart music — songs that feature in the music charts
- chaud-froid — a cooked dish of fowl or game, served cold with aspic, jelly, or a sauce.
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- chelicerate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chelicerata, a subphylum of arthropods, including arachnids and the horseshoe crab, in which the first pair of limbs are modified as chelicerae
- cheliferous — bearing chelae
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- chemistries — Plural form of chemistry.
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- cherishment — the act or process of cherishing
- chernozemic — of or relating to a chernozem
- cherry hill — city in SW N.J., east of Camden: pop. 70,000
- cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chiaroscuro — Chiaroscuro is the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place.
- chicaneries — Plural form of chicanery.
- chichihaerh — Qiqihar