11-letter words containing c, h, l, o
- cloth-eared — deaf
- clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
- clothes-peg — a clothespin.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesless — Without clothes.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
- clove hitch — a knot or hitch used for securing a rope to a spar, post, or larger rope
- cloven hoof — Animals that have cloven hooves have feet that are divided into two parts. Cows, sheep, and goats have cloven hooves.
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
- 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.
- cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- 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
- collenchyme — Botany. a gelatinous, thickened, and usually elongated cell that is part of a layer of modified tissue in some plants.
- colocynthis — Obsolete form of colocynth.
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
- color wheel — Art. one of a pair of primary or secondary colors opposed to the other member of the pair on a schematic chart or scale (color wheel) as green opposed to red, orange opposed to blue, or violet opposed to yellow. Compare analogous color. the relationship of these pairs of colors perceived as completing or enhancing each other.
- coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
- column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
- convex hull — the smallest convex set containing a given set; the intersection of all convex sets that contain a given set.
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- cool school — a school where the students resolve conflict without the involvement of teachers
- 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
- coprophilic — an obsessive interest in feces.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
- 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.
- creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
- crown wheel — the wheel next to the winding knob that has one set of teeth at right angles to the other
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.