11-letter words containing a, c, h, e, l
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- de la beche — Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
- deutschland — Germany
- dicephalous — having two heads
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- dutch metal — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- earth-color — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.
- echolocated — Simple past tense and past participle of echolocate.
- echolocator — An organism capable of echolocation.
- ectothermal — coldblooded (sense 1)
- edaphically — In terms of soil conditions.
- encephaloid — resembling the brain or brain matter
- encephaloma — a brain tumour
- enchantedly — As if enchanted.
- epithalamic — Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.
- epithetical — Alternative form of epithetic.
- eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- escheatable — Liable to escheat.
- ethicalness — (rare) The state or quality of being ethical.
- ethological — Of or pertaining to ethology.
- exchangable — Alternative spelling of exchangeable.
- fallen arch — collapse of the arch formed by the instep of the foot, resulting in flat feet
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- file attach — [FidoNet] 1. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another. 2. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- flitchplate — an iron or steel plate for reinforcing a flitch beam.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- french flat — a flat that can be raised to or hung from the flies, and that contains practicable doors, windows, etc.
- french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
- geochemical — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
- googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
- hadley cell — an atmospheric convection pattern in which a current of hot equatorial air rises, divides, cools as it moves toward the poles, descends, and warms as it returns to the equator
- haematocele — Alternative spelling of hematocele.