11-letter words containing c, h, a, d, l, e
- 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.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- de la beche — Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
- deutschland — Germany
- dicephalous — having two heads
- 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.
- dutch metal — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- echolocated — Simple past tense and past participle of echolocate.
- edaphically — In terms of soil conditions.
- encephaloid — resembling the brain or brain matter
- enchantedly — As if enchanted.
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- hadley cell — an atmospheric convection pattern in which a current of hot equatorial air rises, divides, cools as it moves toward the poles, descends, and warms as it returns to the equator
- half cocked — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.
- half-cooked — not cooked thoroughly
- half-decade — a period of ten years: the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- head collar — the part of a bridle that fits round a horse's head
- health card — an identity card required to obtain public health insurance services
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- hexadactyly — Sexdactyly.
- hexadecimal — Also, hex. of or relating to a numbering system that uses 16 as the radix, employing the numerals 0 through 9 and representing digits greater than 9 with the letters A through F.
- hexidecimal — (spelling) Mis-spelling of "hexadecimal".
- hurdle race — a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles while running
- hyperdactyl — having an excessive number of fingers or toes
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- knucklehead — a stupid, bumbling, inept person.
- lady chapel — a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, attached to a church, and generally behind the high altar at the extremity of the apse.
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- middlemarch — a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
- pedophiliac — pedophile.
- phylloclade — a flattened stem or branch having the function of a leaf.
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- red channel — in an airport, the route taken by passengers wishing to declare goods, such as large quantities of tobacco or alcohol