11-letter words containing c, h, o, r
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- cytopharynx — the gullet of a protozoan.
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decoherence — the process in which a system's behaviour changes from that which can be explained by quantum mechanics to that which can be explained by classical mechanics
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
- discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
- drop anchor — secure a ship in place
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- 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.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- echo boomer — a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.
- echolocator — An organism capable of echolocation.
- echotexture — (medicine) The patterning of echogenicity in a diagnostic image.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- ectomorphic — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- ectothermal — coldblooded (sense 1)
- ectothermic — a cold-blooded animal.
- ectotrophic — (of a mycorrhiza) growing outside the root or between the cells.
- eichendorff — Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- emery cloth — a cloth covered with abrasive emery particles, used for sanding
- enchiridion — A book containing essential information on a subject.
- enchondroma — A cartilage cyst found in the bone marrow.
- encroachers — Plural form of encroacher.
- encroaching — That encroaches.
- endomorphic — Of or pertaining to an endomorph.