11-letter words containing c, h, e, l
- close shave — a narrow escape
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
- clothes-peg — a clothespin.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesless — Without clothes.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
- clove hitch — a knot or hitch used for securing a rope to a spar, post, or larger rope
- cloven hoof — Animals that have cloven hooves have feet that are divided into two parts. Cows, sheep, and goats have cloven hooves.
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
- coal heaver — a workman who moves coal
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- coleorhizae — Plural form of coleorhiza.
- collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
- collenchyme — Botany. a gelatinous, thickened, and usually elongated cell that is part of a layer of modified tissue in some plants.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- color wheel — Art. one of a pair of primary or secondary colors opposed to the other member of the pair on a schematic chart or scale (color wheel) as green opposed to red, orange opposed to blue, or violet opposed to yellow. Compare analogous color. the relationship of these pairs of colors perceived as completing or enhancing each other.
- coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- convex hull — the smallest convex set containing a given set; the intersection of all convex sets that contain a given set.
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- cool-headed — If you describe someone as cool-headed, you mean that they stay calm in difficult situations.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
- corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- crown wheel — the wheel next to the winding knob that has one set of teeth at right angles to the other
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- cyclohexane — a colourless insoluble flammable liquid cycloalkane with a pungent odour, made by hydrogenation of benzene and used as a paint remover and solvent. Formula: C6H12
- cyclohexene — (organic compound) A cyclic hydrocarbon containing six carbon atoms and one double bond; any of its derivatives.
- 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.
- 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.