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11-letter words containing t, c

  • certainties — Plural form of certainty.
  • certifiable — If you describe someone as certifiable, you think that their behaviour is extremely unreasonable or foolish.
  • certifiably — capable of being certified.
  • certificate — A certificate is an official document stating that particular facts are true.
  • certioraris — Plural form of certiorari.
  • cesarevitch — the eldest son of a czar.
  • ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
  • cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
  • chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
  • 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
  • chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
  • chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
  • chain-react — to undergo a chain reaction
  • chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
  • chair table — an article of furniture, produced especially in colonial America, that can serve as either a table or a chair, having, as a chair, a large, usually circular, hinged back that can be pulled down and rested on the arms to form a tabletop.
  • chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
  • chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
  • chamaephyte — a plant whose buds are close to the ground
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • change feet — to put on different shoes, boots, etc
  • chansonette — a little song
  • chantefable — (in medieval French literature) a prose narrative interspersed with verse.
  • chanterelle — any saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus of the genus Cantharellus, esp C. cibarius, having an edible yellow funnel-shaped mushroom: family Cantharellaceae
  • chanticleer — a name for a cock, used esp in fables
  • chaotically — completely confused or disordered: a chaotic mass of books and papers.
  • chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
  • chaptalized — Simple past tense and past participle of chaptalize.
  • chapultepec — a rocky hill in Mexico City: captured (Sept., 1847) in an American assault led by Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican War
  • charactered — Simple past tense and past participle of character.
  • charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
  • charcuterie — cooked cold meats
  • charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • 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
  • charlatanry — charlatanism.
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
  • chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
  • chart music — songs that feature in the music charts
  • chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
  • chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
  • chaste tree — a small ornamental verbenaceous tree, Vitex agnus-castus, of S Europe and SW Asia, with spikes of pale blue flowers
  • chastenment — the process of chastening
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