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11-letter words containing ai

  • brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
  • brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brain drain — When people talk about a brain drain, they are referring to the movement of a large number of scientists or academics away from their own country to other countries where the conditions and salaries are better.
  • brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
  • brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
  • brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
  • bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
  • bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
  • bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
  • cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
  • caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
  • caird coast — a region of Antarctica: a part of Coats Land on the SE coast of the Weddell Sea; now included in the British Antarctic Territory (claim suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959)
  • camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
  • campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
  • campaigning — Military. military operations for a specific objective. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
  • canandaigua — a town in central New York.
  • cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
  • captainship — captaincy.
  • career fair — recruitment event
  • casing nail — a nail having a small, conical head, slenderer than a common nail of the same length, used for laying floors, fastening matchboarding, and other work in which the head may remain visible.
  • certainties — Plural form of certainty.
  • cesca chair — a chair, with or without arms, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1928, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless tubular steel and a seat and back of bentwood-framed canework.
  • chain coral — coral of the extinct genus Halysites, from the Ordovician and Silurian periods, consisting of oval, laterally compressed corallites united to form a chainlike structure.
  • chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
  • 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 wheel — sprocket (def 1).
  • chain-react — to undergo a chain reaction
  • chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
  • 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.
  • chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
  • chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
  • chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
  • chatelaines — Plural form of chatelaine.
  • chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
  • chieftaincy — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain
  • chilblained — Afflicted with a chilblain.
  • choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
  • chou en-lai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949–58) and premier (1949–76)
  • chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
  • clairvoyant — Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead people.
  • co-chairman — one of two or more joint chairmen.
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