11-letter words containing a, s, h, o
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- 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 class — the US and Canad. name for economy class
- 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.
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitates — cohabit.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- 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.
- corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
- corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
- corn starch — Corn starch is a fine white powder made from corn, used as a thickener or binder in the manufacture of drugs.
- cosmography — a representation of the world or the universe
- cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
- crazy horse — Native American name Ta-Sunko-Witko. ?1849–77, Sioux chief, remembered for his attempts to resist White settlement in Sioux territory
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
- cross hairs — crossed lines, as of fine hair or cobweb, mounted in the optical system of a telescopic gun sight, surveyor's level, etc., to assist in precise aiming or centering of the instrument
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
- cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- 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.
- danish loaf — a large white loaf with a centre split having the top crust dusted with flour, esp one baked on the sole of the oven
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.