11-letter words containing c, h, i, s
- backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- bbc english — Received Pronunciation.
- benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- butt chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade less than 4 inches (10 cm) long.
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- caddishness — the state of being caddish
- caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- callimachus — late 5th century bc, Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
- capiz shell — whitish, translucent shell of the Philippines, used in making lamp shades, decorative articles, etc.
- captainship — captaincy.
- carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
- cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
- cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
- casing shoe — A casing shoe is the bottom of the casing string, including the cement around it.
- catachresis — the incorrect use of words, as luxuriant for luxurious
- cataphonics — catacoustics
- catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
- catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- catch flies — any of various plants, especially of the genera Silene and Lychnis, having a viscid secretion on the stem and calyx in which small insects are sometimes caught.
- catechetics — the branch of theology that deals with catechesis
- catechising — Present participle of catechise.
- catechismal — Of or pertaining to a catechism; having the form of questions and answers; catechical.
- catechistic — a person who catechizes.
- catholicism — Catholicism is the traditions, the behaviour, and the set of Christian beliefs that are held by Catholics.
- cattishness — The property of being cattish.
- cavalierish — like a cavalier
- cenesthesia — the mass of undifferentiated sensations that make one aware of the body and its condition, as in the feeling of well-being or illness
- cesarevitch — the eldest son of a czar.
- cesca chair — a chair, with or without arms, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1928, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless tubular steel and a seat and back of bentwood-framed canework.
- ch'iungshan — Qiongshan.
- chaffinches — Plural form of chaffinch.