11-letter words containing c, h, l, a
- cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
- clearheaded — having or indicating a clear mind; lucid; unconfused
- 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.
- clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
- close reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- close shave — a narrow escape
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- coach class — the US and Canad. name for economy class
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- coal heaver — a workman who moves coal
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- coleorhizae — Plural form of coleorhiza.
- collagraphy — A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
- collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- cool-headed — If you describe someone as cool-headed, you mean that they stay calm in difficult situations.
- coprophilia — an abnormal interest in faeces and their evacuation
- corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
- corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
- cyclohexane — a colourless insoluble flammable liquid cycloalkane with a pungent odour, made by hydrogenation of benzene and used as a paint remover and solvent. Formula: C6H12
- cyclothymia — a condition characterized by periodical swings of mood between excitement and depression, activity and inactivity
- 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.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- de la beche — Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
- deutschland — Germany
- diaphonical — Diacoustic; diaphonic.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
- dutch metal — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- earth-color — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.