11-letter words containing c, h, a, d
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
- cabbagehead — cabbage1 (def 2).
- cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
- caddishness — the state of being caddish
- cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
- candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
- canned heat — fuel packaged to be used in small cans for heating, as with chafing dishes or in portable stoves.
- cantharidal — relating to or made of cantharides
- 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
- cantharidic — cantharidal
- cantharidin — the compound C10H12O4, which is the active ingredient in cantharides and is secreted by many species of blister beetle
- cap in hand — If you go cap in hand to someone, you ask them very humbly to give you something or to do something for you.
- capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
- card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
- cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
- cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
- cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
- cardophagus — a donkey
- cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
- 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.
- cathedratic — relating to the seat of the bishop
- cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
- cattle shed — a shed for cattle
- cedar chest — a chest made of cedar, in which woolens, furs, etc. are stored for protection against moths
- centrarchid — (zoology) Any member of the Centrarchidae.
- cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
- cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
- chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
- chalcedonic — Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
- chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
- chalcidicum — an annex of an ancient Roman basilica.
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- chamaedorea — any of various small, slender palms of the genus Chamaedorea, several species of which are cultivated as houseplants.
- chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse