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11-letter words containing c, h, o, r

  • coronograph — an instrument for observing and photographing the sun's corona, consisting of a telescope fitted with lenses, filters, and diaphragms that simulate an eclipse.
  • cosmography — a representation of the world or the universe
  • cosmosphere — a device consisting of a glass globe on which the stars are shown, and within which is another globe representing the Earth, that shows the position of the Earth, at any given time, in relation to the stars
  • couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
  • couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • cough syrup — Cough syrup is a liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
  • countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
  • countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
  • courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
  • cover sheet — top page of a document
  • cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
  • cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
  • cpt theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
  • crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
  • cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
  • craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
  • craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
  • crapshooter — a person who plays the game of craps
  • crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
  • crazy horse — Native American name Ta-Sunko-Witko. ?1849–77, Sioux chief, remembered for his attempts to resist White settlement in Sioux territory
  • crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
  • creatorship — a person or thing that creates.
  • credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
  • creole-fish — a deep-sea fish, Paranthias furcifer, of the sea bass family, inhabiting tropical Atlantic waters.
  • creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
  • crepe shoes — shoes soled with crepe rubber
  • crescograph — an instrument for measuring plant growth
  • crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
  • crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
  • crochetwork — needlework done by crocheting.
  • cross hairs — crossed lines, as of fine hair or cobweb, mounted in the optical system of a telescopic gun sight, surveyor's level, etc., to assist in precise aiming or centering of the instrument
  • cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
  • cross-check — If you cross-check information, you check that it is correct using a different method or source from the one originally used to obtain it.
  • cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
  • cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
  • cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
  • crotcheteer — a person with a crotchet
  • crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
  • crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
  • crown wheel — the wheel next to the winding knob that has one set of teeth at right angles to the other
  • crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
  • cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
  • cryophysics — a branch of physics in which phenomena are studied at low temperatures
  • cryotherapy — medical treatment in which all or part of the body is subjected to cold temperatures, as by means of ice packs
  • cryptograph — something written in code or cipher
  • cryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its buds below the soil or water surface
  • cryptorchid — an animal or human in which the testes fail to descend into the scrotum
  • ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
  • ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
  • culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
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