11-letter words containing t, h, a, c
- 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
- chateauguay — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
- chatelaines — Plural form of chatelaine.
- chattanooga — a city in SE Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: scene of two battles during the Civil War, in which the North defeated the Confederates, cleared Tennessee, and opened the way to Georgia (1863). Pop: 154 887 (2003 est)
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- chauvinists — zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- cheat death — If you say that someone cheats death, you mean they only just avoid being killed.
- cheat sheet — exam: notes for cheating
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- cheesesteak — a sandwich filled with grilled beef and cheese
- 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
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- chemotactic — oriented movement toward or away from a chemical stimulus.
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chiasmatypy — the process of chiasma formation, which is the basis for crossing over.