11-letter words containing c, h, e, g
- 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.
- ditchdigger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- dot etching — a method of making corrections in halftone positives or negatives by using chemicals to reduce the size of halftone dots.
- enciphering — Present participle of encipher.
- encroaching — That encroaches.
- entheogenic — Of, relating to, or as a result of an entheogen.
- entrenching — Present participle of entrench.
- eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- ethological — Of or pertaining to ethology.
- euchologion — a collection of prayers
- exchangable — Alternative spelling of exchangeable.
- eyecatching — Alternative spelling of eye-catching.
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- flight deck — Navy. the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, constructed and equipped for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
- free charge — any electric charge that can be placed on a conductor or on or within a dielectric or that moves freely in space (opposed to polarization charge).
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- 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.
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- gatecrasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- gegenschein — a faint, elliptical patch of light in the night sky that appears opposite the sun, being a reflection of sunlight by meteoric material in space.
- gentileschi — Artemisia [ahr-tuh-mizh-uh,, -mizh-ee-uh;; Italian ahr-te-mee-zyah] /ˌɑr təˈmɪʒ ə,, -ˈmɪʒ i ə;; Italian ˌɑr tɛˈmi zyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1593?–1652? Italian painter.
- geochemical — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- geotechnics — the application of science in order to utilize the earth's natural resources in engineering projects
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- get hitched — get married
- ghetto code — (humour, programming) A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the original requirements.
- 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.
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
- gnatcatcher — any tiny insect-eating, New World warbler of the genus Polioptila, having a long, mobile tail and a slender bill.
- goat cheese — a cheese containing goat's milk, either alone or mixed with cow's milk, usually having a stronger flavor than one made of cow's milk alone.
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.