11-letter words starting with cha
- chandelling — Present participle of chandelle.
- chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
- chandlering — the work of a chandler
- chang jiang — a river in E Asia, flowing from the Tibetan plateau through central China to the East China Sea. About 3200 miles (5150 km) long.
- change down — When you change down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- change face — to rotate the telescope of a surveying instrument through 180° horizontally and vertically, taking a second sighting of the same object in order to reduce error
- change feet — to put on different shoes, boots, etc
- change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
- changefully — In a changeful manner.
- changelings — Plural form of changeling.
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
- changeround — the process of changing position
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- channelbill — a large, gray Australian cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, with a grooved bill.
- channelised — Simple past tense and past participle of channelise.
- channelized — Simple past tense and past participle of channelize.
- channelling — Architecture, Furniture. ornamentation with flutes or channels.
- chansonette — a little song
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- 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
- chao phraya — a river in N Thailand, rising in the N highlands and flowing south to the Gulf of Thailand. Length: (including the headstreams Nan and Ping) 1200 km (750 miles)
- chaotically — completely confused or disordered: a chaotic mass of books and papers.
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- chapel hill — a city in central North Carolina.
- chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
- 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.
- 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
- char-a-banc — a large bus used on sightseeing tours, especially one with open sides and no center aisle.
- characinoid — of or like a characin
- 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.
- 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
- chardonnays — Plural form of chardonnay.
- charge card — A charge card is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores. Compare credit card.
- charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
- 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