11-letter words containing a, s, h, d
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- caddishness — the state of being caddish
- 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
- cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
- cardophagus — a donkey
- cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
- case method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
- case*method — An analysis and design method from Oracle targeted at information management applications.
- case-harden — to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment
- casehardens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caseharden.
- cattle shed — a shed for cattle
- cedar chest — a chest made of cedar, in which woolens, furs, etc. are stored for protection against moths
- cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- chandeliers — Plural form of chandelier.
- chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
- channelised — Simple past tense and past participle of channelise.
- chardonnays — Plural form of chardonnay.
- cheese-head — denoting or relating to a screw or bolt with a cylindrical slotted head
- cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
- chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- chindonesia — China, India, and Indonesia: seen collectively as the most important developing economies with the best growth markets for investors
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chrysalidal — relating to a chrysalis or stage in the development of an insect
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysomonad — any golden-yellow to brown freshwater algae of the class Chrysomonadales (phylum Chrysophyta), living singly or in colonies; blooms may color the water brown.
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clean hands — freedom from guilt
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- 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.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- 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.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.