11-letter words containing c, h, i, n, e
- cholesterin — a sterol, C 27 H 46 O, that occurs in all animal tissues, especially in the brain, spinal cord, and adipose tissue, functioning chiefly as a protective agent in the skin and myelin sheaths of nerve cells, a detoxifier in the bloodstream, and as a precursor of many steroids: deposits of cholesterol form in certain pathological conditions, as gallstones and atherosclerotic plaques.
- cholinergic — denoting nerve fibres that release acetylcholine when stimulated
- chondrified — Simple past tense and past participle of chondrify.
- chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
- chou en-lai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949–58) and premier (1949–76)
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- christening — A christening is a Christian ceremony in which a baby is made a member of the Christian church and is officially given his or her name. Compare baptism.
- christingle — (in Britain) a Christian service for children held shortly before Christmas, in which each child is given a decorated fruit with a lighted candle in it
- chrominance — the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity
- chromogenic — producing colour
- chroniclers — Plural form of chronicler.
- chrysoidine — a red-brown or greenish-black, crystalline solid, C 12 H 13 N 4 Cl, that yields orange colors in aqueous or alcohol solution: used chiefly in dyeing cotton and silk.
- citizenhood — The state of being a citizen.
- citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
- cleisthenes — 6th century bc, Athenian statesman: democratized the political structure of Athens
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- clinochlore — a mineral similar to chlorite in appearance
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
- coinherence — the act of inhering together
- coinheritor — a fellow inheritor
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- cornish rex — a breed of cat with a very soft wavy coat, a small head, large eyes, and very large ears
- craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- crunch time — the critical moment
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- cushionless — without a cushion
- dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- deciphering — Present participle of decipher.
- declutching — Present participle of declutch.
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- 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.
- dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.
- dimethicone — Polydimethylsiloxane.
- disenchants — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenchant.
- domenichino — (Domenico Zampieri (Le Dominiquin)) 1581–1641, Italian painter.
- dot etching — a method of making corrections in halftone positives or negatives by using chemicals to reduce the size of halftone dots.
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- echinococci — Plural form of echinococcus.