11-letter words starting with c
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- candy-assed — timid or cowardly; sissified.
- cane-cutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
- caniapiscau — a river in NE Quebec, Canada, flowing NW to the Larch River (Mélèzes) 575 miles (925 km) long.
- canis major — a constellation in the S hemisphere close to Orion, containing Sirius, the brightest star in the sky
- canis minor — a small constellation in the N hemisphere close to Orion, containing the first magnitude star Procyon
- canisterise — to put into canisters
- canisterize — to put into canisters
- canker sore — an ulceration, esp of the lips or lining of the oral cavity
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- cannabidiol — (organic compound) A non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
- cannabinoid — any of the narcotic chemical substances found in cannabin
- canned heat — fuel packaged to be used in small cans for heating, as with chafing dishes or in portable stoves.
- cannel coal — a dull coal having a high volatile content and burning with a smoky luminous flame
- cannibalise — to subject to cannibalism.
- cannibalism — If a group of people practise cannibalism, they eat the flesh of other people.
- cannibalize — If you cannibalize something, you take it to pieces and use it to make something else.
- cannon bone — a bone in the legs of horses and other hoofed animals consisting of greatly elongated fused metatarsals or metacarpals
- cannon-ball — a missile, usually round and made of iron or steel, designed to be fired from a cannon.
- cannon-shot — the range of a cannon
- cannonading — a continued discharge of cannon, especially during an attack.
- cannonballs — Plural form of cannonball.
- cannot seem — If you say that you cannot seem or could not seem to do something, you mean that you have tried to do it and were unable to.
- cannulation — a metal tube for insertion into the body to draw off fluid or to introduce medication.
- canoe birch — paper birch.
- canonically — pertaining to, established by, or conforming to a canon or canons.
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- canopic jar — (in ancient Egypt) one of four containers with tops in the form of animal heads of the gods, for holding the entrails of a mummy
- canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- cantharidic — cantharidal
- cantharidin — the compound C10H12O4, which is the active ingredient in cantharides and is secreted by many species of blister beetle
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- canto fermo — a melody that is the basis to which other parts are added in polyphonic music
- cantonments — Plural form of cantonment.
- canvas duck — a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.
- canvas-back — a North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, the male of which has a whitish back and a reddish-brown head and neck.
- canvasbacks — Plural form of canvasback.
- canyon wind — a nocturnal, down-canyon flow of air caused by the cooling of the canyon walls. Compare valley wind.
- cap in hand — If you go cap in hand to someone, you ask them very humbly to give you something or to do something for you.
- cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- capacitance — the property of a system that enables it to store electric charge
- capacitated — Simple past tense and past participle of capacitate.
- capacitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capacitate.
- caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.