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11-letter words containing b, c, h

  • checker cab — a taxi with a checked pattern as part of the trim
  • cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
  • chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
  • chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
  • cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
  • cheque stub — the part of a cheque that is retained as a record of its purpose
  • cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
  • cherry bomb — a powerful firecracker that is shaped like a cherry
  • chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
  • chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
  • chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
  • chibougamau — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • chickabiddy — a term of endearment, esp for a child
  • chief rabbi — the chief religious minister of a national Jewish community
  • chifforobes — Plural form of chifforobe.
  • chilblained — Afflicted with a chilblain.
  • child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
  • child bride — a very young bride, esp when the groom is considerably older
  • child labor — the regular, full-time employment of children under a legally defined age in factories, stores, offices, etc.: in the U.S., the minimum legal age under federal law is 16 (in hazardous occupations, 18)
  • childbirths — Plural form of childbirth.
  • chile-bells — a vine, Lapageria rosea, native to Chile, having leathery evergreen leaves and showy reddish flowers: the national flower of Chile.
  • chiliburger — a hamburger served with a topping of chili con carne.
  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
  • chockablock — pulled so tight as to have the blocks touching
  • chromophobe — a cell that does not take a stain easily
  • chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
  • chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
  • chuck-berryCharles Edward Anderson ("Chuck") born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
  • chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
  • chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
  • church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
  • clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
  • coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
  • cocoa beach — a town in E central Florida.
  • cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • cohabitated — cohabit.
  • cohabitates — cohabit.
  • cohabitator — One who cohabits.
  • cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
  • cooch behar — a former state of NE India: part of West Bengal since 1950
  • coprophobia — an abnormal fear of feces.
  • copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
  • corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
  • cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
  • cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
  • curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
  • cyberethics — Ethics in cyberspace.
  • cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
  • de la beche — Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)
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