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11-letter words containing c, h, k, a

  • leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
  • lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
  • lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
  • lunch break — pause for midday meal
  • machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
  • make change — If you make change, you give someone smaller notes, bills, or coins, in exchange for the same value of larger ones.
  • makhachkala — an autonomous republic in the SW Russian Federation on the W shore of the Caspian Sea. 19,421 sq. mi. (50,300 sq. km). Capital: Makhachkala. Formerly Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
  • marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
  • matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
  • matchmaking — An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
  • matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.
  • naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
  • nakhichevan — an autonomous republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. 2124 sq. mi. (5500 sq. km). Capital: Nakhichevan.
  • namechecked — Simple past tense and past participle of namecheck.
  • nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
  • nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
  • on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
  • peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
  • peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
  • quick march — a march in quick time.
  • quick-hatch — a wolverine.
  • quick-march — a march in quick time.
  • radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
  • ralik chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the W part of the Marshall Islands.
  • ratak chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the E part of the Marshall Islands.
  • rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
  • road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • sales check — sales slip.
  • saltchucker — a saltwater angler
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • schmierkase — cottage cheese.
  • schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
  • scratchback — an implement for scratching the back
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • sharksucker — any of several remoras, as Echeneis naucrates, usually found attached to sharks.
  • shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
  • shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
  • sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
  • shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
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