11-letter words containing a, c, h, e, s
- cheesesteak — a sandwich filled with grilled beef and cheese
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- chessplayer — a player of chess
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chevy chase — (The Ballad of Chevy Chase) a 15th-century English ballad describing the battle of Otterburn between the Percys and the Douglases.
- chiastolite — a variety of andalusite containing carbon impurities
- chicaneries — Plural form of chicanery.
- chilaquiles — (in Mexican cooking) a dish of fried tortilla strips typically topped with a spicy tomato sauce and cheese.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- chili sauce — a spiced sauce of chopped tomatoes, green and red sweet peppers, onions, etc.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- china aster — a related Chinese plant, Callistephus chinensis, widely cultivated for its showy brightly coloured flowers
- china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
- chindonesia — China, India, and Indonesia: seen collectively as the most important developing economies with the best growth markets for investors
- chinese tag — a variety of the game of tag in which the tagged player must hold one hand on the part of the body where he or she was tagged.
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- choirmaster — A choirmaster is a person whose job is to train a choir.
- cholestasis — the medical condition characterized by the inability of bile to pass normally out of the liver due to blockage or impairment
- cholestatic — of or relating to cholestasis
- chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysalises — Plural form of chrysalis.
- chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- clam shells — the shell of a clam.
- clean hands — freedom from guilt
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- clean sheet — an instance of conceding no goals or points in a match or competition (esp in the phrase keep a clean sheet)
- cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
- close reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- close shave — a narrow escape
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- coach horse — a horse, usually strong and heavily built, for drawing a coach.
- coach house — a building in which a coach is kept
- coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
- coarse fish — a freshwater fish that is not a member of the salmon family
- cockchafers — Plural form of cockchafer.
- cockroaches — Plural form of cockroach.
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- cohabitates — cohabit.