11-letter words containing a, n, t, i, s, h
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- 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
- captainship — captaincy.
- carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
- cataphonics — catacoustics
- catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
- catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- catechising — Present participle of catechise.
- cattishness — The property of being cattish.
- cenesthesia — the mass of undifferentiated sensations that make one aware of the body and its condition, as in the feeling of well-being or illness
- 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.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- chatelaines — Plural form of chatelaine.
- chauvinists — zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chin cactus — any of various globular cacti of the genus Gymnocalycium, native to South America, having white or pinkish flowers and a chinlike protrusion below each cluster of spines.
- 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
- 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.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- cholangitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the bile duct.
- chrismation — a rite of initiation involving anointing with chrism and taking place at the same time as baptism
- christian x — 1890–1947, king of Denmark (1912–47) and Iceland (1918–44)
- christiania — Christie1
- christianly — like a Christian; Christianlike.
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
- deathliness — The state or quality of being deathly.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- disenchants — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenchant.
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disheartens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishearten.
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- dispatching — Send off to a destination or for a purpose.
- dysthanasia — (medicine, rare) The undue prolongation of life by artificial means in a person who cannot otherwise survive.
- earthliness — of or relating to the earth, especially as opposed to heaven; worldly.
- empathising — Present participle of empathise.
- enarthrosis — A ball-and-socket joint.
- enthusiasms — Plural form of enthusiasm.
- enthusiasts — A person who is highly interested in a particular activity or subject.