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11-letter words containing c, h, e, d

  • 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.
  • copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
  • copyrighted — Copyrighted material is protected by a copyright.
  • crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
  • credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
  • 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
  • cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
  • curd cheese — a mild white cheese made from skimmed milk curds, smoother and fattier than cottage cheese
  • cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
  • dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
  • 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.
  • deciphering — Present participle of decipher.
  • declutching — Present participle of declutch.
  • decoherence — the process in which a system's behaviour changes from that which can be explained by quantum mechanics to that which can be explained by classical mechanics
  • deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
  • delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
  • demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
  • demythicize — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
  • 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.
  • deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
  • despatching — Present participle of despatch.
  • detachments — Plural form of detachment.
  • deutschland — Germany
  • deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
  • diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
  • diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
  • dicephalous — having two heads
  • dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.
  • dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
  • dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
  • dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
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