11-letter words containing a, r, c, h, d
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- death chair — electric chair.
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dendrachate — a variety of agate with black or brown tree-like markings, caused by impurities
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diaphragmic — Which uses, or which is located in or near, the diaphragm.
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- 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.
- disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
- discharging — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- draft chair — a chair so designed as to fend off drafts from behind, as a wing chair.
- drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drop anchor — secure a ship in place
- dutch chair — a chair of c1700, derived from Dutch models, having curved uprights, a wide splat joined to the seat rail, and cabriole legs.
- dutch treat — a meal or entertainment for which each person pays his or her own expenses.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- enchondroma — A cartilage cyst found in the bone marrow.
- ex cathedra — with authority
- face-harden — to harden the surface of (metal), as by chilling or casehardening.
- far-fetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.