11-letter words containing c, h, a, b
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- hash bucket — hash coding
- hatchet job — a maliciously destructive critique or act: The special committee has done a hatchet job on the new proposal.
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hib vaccine — a vaccine against meningitis, pneumonia, and other illnesses caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b: usually administered during infancy.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hollow back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- hollow-back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hypercarbia — (medicine) the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- impeachable — making one subject to impeachment, as misconduct in office.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- inhabitance — place of residence; habitation.
- inhabitancy — place of residence; habitation.
- interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- labyrinthic — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- leaf blotch — a symptom or phase of certain especially fungal diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic discoloration of the leaves.
- leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lochaber ax — a Scottish battle-ax of the 16th century, having a tall, cleaverlike blade with a hook at its upper end.
- long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
- lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
- lord cobham — title of Sir John Oldcastle
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- machineable — Alternative form of machinable.
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
- miami beach — a city in SE Florida on an island 2½ miles (4 km) across Biscayne Bay from Miami: seaside resort.
- necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
- neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora