11-letter words containing ce
- binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
- biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
- black racer — blacksnake (def 1).
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
- bobbin lace — lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
- boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
- boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
- bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
- bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
- box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
- brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
- braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
- brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
- bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
- break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
- breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
- broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
- bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
- brute force — physical strength, power
- burn center — a specialized medical facility that provides comprehensive care for patients with burn injuries.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- by force of — If something happens by force of a particular quality, action, or set of circumstances, it happens because of the nature or intensity of that quality, action, or set of circumstances.
- by my certy — assuredly
- calceolaria — any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers
- call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- cancelation — an act of canceling.
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- cancellable — able to be cancelled
- cancellated — Anatomy. of spongy or porous structure, as bone.
- cancelm00se — Cancelmoose
- cancelmoose — (messaging) A semi-mythical being that cancels Usenet articles posted by others. (In general, an article can only be cancelled by its original author.) The Cancelmoose's usual target is spam or extremely excessive cross-posting. Some believe that the Cancelmoose exists only in the same mythic sense that B1FF, the NSA line eater and Shub Internet exist; others consider Cancelmoose's historicity to be closer to that of Kibo. The latter group assume that the real Cancelmoose is not one person (or moose), but instead is a cabal of NNTP wonks. However, the Cancelmoose is probably real, seeing as how it has its own website.
- cancer gene — oncogene.
- canceration — the process of becoming cancerous
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candescence — glowing; incandescent.
- capacitance — the property of a system that enables it to store electric charge
- caper sauce — sauce flavoured with capers
- car licence — an official document or certificate authorizing a person to drive an automobile
- carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
- ceaselessly — without stop or pause; unending; incessant.
- cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.