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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.
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