11-letter words containing c, h, e, s, l, o
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
- 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.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- 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.
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- endochylous — having water-storing cells
- eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
- hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- helioscopic — of or relating to observations of the sun
- heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- home-school — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homeschools — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of homeschool.
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- hot cockles — a children's game in which a blindfolded player is hit by one of the other players and then tries to guess which one did the hitting.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
- iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
- isocephalic — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isolecithal — homolecithal.
- lake school — Lake Poets.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched