11-letter words containing c, h, u, l
- chinese lug — a lugsail stiffened by battens and kept flat when hoisted: used in Chinese sailing vessels.
- chirurgical — relating to, carrying out or expert in surgery
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chloroquine — a synthetic drug administered orally to treat malaria. Formula: C18H26ClN3
- chorus girl — A chorus girl is a young woman who sings or dances as part of a group in a show or film.
- chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
- chou en-lai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949–58) and premier (1949–76)
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
- chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
- chucklingly — In a chuckling manner.
- chuckwallas — Plural form of chuckwalla.
- chugalugged — Simple past tense and past participle of chugalug.
- chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
- chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
- church hall — a building near to or attached to a church suitable for social gatherings
- churn drill — a portable drill rig using a bit fashioned on a massive steel cylinder that is alternately lifted and dropped to drill a hole in earth and rock.
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
- 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
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- 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
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- declutching — Present participle of declutch.
- deutschland — Germany
- dicephalous — having two heads
- disc plough — a plough that cuts by means of revolving steel discs
- dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
- disulphuric — pyrosulphuric
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
- drill chuck — a chuck for holding a drill bit.
- dutch lunch — an individual portion or serving of cold cuts.
- dutch metal — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- dutch uncle — a person who criticizes or reproves with unsparing severity and frankness.