11-letter words containing c, h, a, d
- chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
- chugalugged — Simple past tense and past participle of chugalug.
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- civil death — (formerly) the loss of all civil rights because of a serious conviction
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clean hands — freedom from guilt
- cleanhanded — free from guilt
- clearheaded — having or indicating a clear mind; lucid; unconfused
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- cohabitated — cohabit.
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- cooch dance — a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body.
- cool-headed — If you describe someone as cool-headed, you mean that they stay calm in difficult situations.
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
- 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.
- dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- 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.
- death chair — electric chair.
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- deccan hemp — kenaf.
- delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dendrachate — a variety of agate with black or brown tree-like markings, caused by impurities
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- detachments — Plural form of detachment.