11-letter words containing c, h, a, t
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- clean sheet — an instance of conceding no goals or points in a match or competition (esp in the phrase keep a clean sheet)
- clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
- cloth-eared — deaf
- coach party — a group of people who travel together on a coach trip
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- coat hanger — A coat hanger is a curved piece of wood, metal, or plastic that you hang a piece of clothing on.
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitated — cohabit.
- cohabitates — cohabit.
- cohabitator — One who cohabits.
- cohortative — intended to encourage
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
- corn starch — Corn starch is a fine white powder made from corn, used as a thickener or binder in the manufacture of drugs.
- cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- crankshafts — Plural form of crankshaft.
- crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
- crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
- crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
- creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- 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
- cryptarithm — a type of mathematical puzzle in which the digits of an equation have been substituted by letters
- cryptograph — something written in code or cipher
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- cyclothymia — a condition characterized by periodical swings of mood between excitement and depression, activity and inactivity
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- cytopharynx — the gullet of a protozoan.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- 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.
- death chair — electric chair.
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.