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

  • neckerchief — a cloth or scarf worn round the neck.
  • netherstock — a stocking
  • nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
  • on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
  • ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
  • peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
  • peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • pocketphone — a mobile phone
  • pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
  • porkchopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
  • price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • puckishness — the state of being puckish
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
  • road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • sales check — sales slip.
  • saltchucker — a saltwater angler
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • schick test — a diphtheria immunity test in which diphtheria toxoid is injected intracutaneously, nonimmunity being indicated by an inflammation at the injection site.
  • schmierkase — cottage cheese.
  • schrecklich — frightful or horrible
  • secchi disk — an opaque, white or black-and-white disk used to measure the cloudiness or turbidity of ocean water by the point at which it is no longer visible from the surface.
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • sharksucker — any of several remoras, as Echeneis naucrates, usually found attached to sharks.
  • shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
  • sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
  • shell shock — battle fatigue.
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sheriffwick — shrievalty.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
  • shitkickers — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
  • shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
  • shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
  • sickishness — the state of being sickish
  • sketch book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • sketch show — a show, such as a TV show or public performance, consisting of a variety of short comedy scenes
  • sketchiness — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
  • skin-search — strip-search.
  • smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
  • speed check — a method of checking the speed at which vehicles are travelling, used by police
  • spell check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
  • spell-check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
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