11-letter words containing c, h, a, n, e
- french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
- french navy — a dark dull navy blue
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- game-change — a dramatic change in course, strategy, basic character, etc.: Her feelings for him have undergone a game-change.
- gamechanger — A visionary, innovative person who changes the way people think of a situation.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- gnatcatcher — any tiny insect-eating, New World warbler of the genus Polioptila, having a long, mobile tail and a slender bill.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- gynecopathy — any disease occurring only in women.
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- haemocyanin — a blue copper-containing respiratory pigment in crustaceans and molluscs that functions as haemoglobin
- haines city — a town in central Florida.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- hand-picked — to pick by hand.
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- hatchelling — Present participle of hatchel.
- hatchet man — a professional murderer.
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- heavy chain — a type of polypeptide chain present in an immunoglobulin molecule
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- hemianoptic — suffering from hemiopia, blind in half the field of vision
- hemicranial — Relating to hemicrania.
- hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- heraclitean — of or relating to Heraclitus or his philosophy.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- 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.
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- high-octane — noting a gasoline with a relatively high octane number, characterized by high efficiency and freedom from knock.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hispanicize — to make Spanish or Latin American, as in character, custom, or style.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.