11-letter words containing c, h, i, n, e, s
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- haines city — a town in central Florida.
- hellenistic — pertaining to Hellenists.
- helminthics — Plural form of helminthic.
- hemisecting — Present participle of hemisect.
- hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hispanicize — to make Spanish or Latin American, as in character, custom, or style.
- homecomings — Plural form of homecoming.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
- hypermnesic — the condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
- hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
- ice fishing — the act or practice of fishing through a hole cut in the ice.
- iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- in stitches — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- indehiscent — not dehiscent; not opening at maturity.
- indochinese — of or relating to Indochina or its inhabitants.
- inherencies — inherence.
- interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
- ionospheric — Of or pertaining to the ionosphere.
- isenthalpic — pertaining to or characterized by constant enthalpy.
- isochronize — to make isochronal.
- kinesthetic — the sensation of movement or strain in muscles, tendons, and joints; muscle sense.
- lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- lecithinase — An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of lecithin.
- lüdenscheid — a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: manufacturing centre for aluminium and plastics. Pop: 79 829 (2003 est)
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macintoshes — Plural form of macintosh.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- manichaeism — the system of religious doctrines, including elements of Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism, etc, taught by the Persian prophet Mani about the 3rd century ad. It was based on a supposed primordial conflict between light and darkness, or goodness and evil
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- mechanicals — (US) mechanical fixtures and fittings.
- mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- menoschesis — suppression of menstruation.
- merchandise — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- metternichs — Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von [kley-mens ven-tsuh l ney-paw-moo k loh-tahr fuh n,, loh-tahr] /ˈkleɪ mɛns ˈvɛn tsəl ˈneɪ pɔ mʊk ˈloʊ tɑr fən,, loʊˈtɑr/ (Show IPA), 1773–1859, Austrian statesman and diplomat.
- microinches — Plural form of microinch.