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11-letter words containing c, h, a, o

  • cohabitator — One who cohabits.
  • cohortative — intended to encourage
  • cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
  • coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
  • coleorhizae — Plural form of coleorhiza.
  • collagraphy — A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
  • collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
  • cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
  • colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
  • complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
  • comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
  • cooch behar — a former state of NE India: part of West Bengal since 1950
  • 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.
  • coprophagan — a dung beetle
  • coprophagia — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
  • coprophagic — involving the eating of excrement
  • coprophilia — an abnormal interest in faeces and their evacuation
  • coprophobia — an abnormal fear of feces.
  • corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
  • corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
  • corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
  • corn starch — Corn starch is a fine white powder made from corn, used as a thickener or binder in the manufacture of drugs.
  • coronagraph — an optical instrument used to simulate an eclipse of the sun so that the faint solar corona can be studied
  • coronograph — an instrument for observing and photographing the sun's corona, consisting of a telescope fitted with lenses, filters, and diaphragms that simulate an eclipse.
  • cosmography — a representation of the world or the universe
  • cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
  • couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
  • couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
  • crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
  • cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
  • craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
  • craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
  • crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
  • crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
  • crazy horse — Native American name Ta-Sunko-Witko. ?1849–77, Sioux chief, remembered for his attempts to resist White settlement in Sioux territory
  • crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
  • creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
  • creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
  • crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
  • crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
  • cross hairs — crossed lines, as of fine hair or cobweb, mounted in the optical system of a telescopic gun sight, surveyor's level, etc., to assist in precise aiming or centering of the instrument
  • cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
  • cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
  • cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
  • cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
  • cryotherapy — medical treatment in which all or part of the body is subjected to cold temperatures, as by means of ice packs
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