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11-letter words containing c, h

  • album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
  • alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
  • alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
  • alcoholized — Simple past tense and past participle of alcoholize.
  • alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
  • algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
  • allocheiria — a medical condition in which sensation is felt at a different point on the body from that stimulated
  • allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
  • allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
  • allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
  • alpha cells — cells in the anterior pituitary that contain acidophil granules
  • alpha cygni — Deneb
  • alpha decay — the radioactive decay process resulting in emission of alpha particles
  • alpha stock — any of the most active securities on the Stock Exchange of which there are between 100 and 200; at least ten market makers must continuously display the prices of an alpha stock and all transactions in them must be published immediately
  • altar cloth — the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
  • amelanchier — A tree or shrub of a genus that includes the juneberries.
  • amenorrheic — of or relating to amenorrhea
  • amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
  • amphibiotic — having an aquatic larval form and a terrestrial adult form, as amphibians
  • amphibrachs — Plural form of amphibrach.
  • amphicelous — concave on both sides, as the bodies of the vertebrae of fishes.
  • amphichiral — (mathematics) superimposable on its mirror image; achiral.
  • amphichroic — producing two colours, one on reacting with an acid, the other on reacting with a base
  • amphicrania — (pathology) A headache affecting both sides of the head.
  • amphictyony — (in ancient Greece) a religious association of states for the maintenance of temples and the cults connected with them
  • amphilochus — a seer, the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and the brother of Alcmaeon.
  • amphimacers — Plural form of amphimacer.
  • amphipathic — of or relating to a molecule that possesses both hydrophobic and hydrophilic elements, such as are found in detergents, or phospholipids of biological membranes
  • amphiphilic — relating to or characterizing an amphiphile
  • amphitricha — bacteria that have flagella at both ends
  • amphophilic — (cytology) That can be stained with either an acidic or basic dye.
  • amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.
  • anacanthous — having no spines or thorns.
  • anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
  • anachronist — A person who has anachronistic views or habits.
  • anachronize — To refer to, or put into, a wrong time.
  • anachronous — relating to anachronism; misplaced chronologically
  • anacoloutha — Plural form of anacolouthon.
  • anacoluthia — lack of grammatical sequence, esp within a single sentence
  • anacoluthic — Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an anacoluthon.
  • anacoluthon — a construction that involves the change from one grammatical sequence to another within a single sentence; an example of anacoluthia
  • anaesthetic — Anaesthetic is a substance that doctors use to stop you feeling pain during an operation, either in the whole of your body when you are unconscious, or in a part of your body when you are awake.
  • anaphorical — of or relating to an anaphora
  • anarchistic — An anarchistic person believes in anarchism. Anarchistic activity or literature promotes anarchism.
  • anathematic — loathsome; disgusting; hateful.
  • ancho chili — a dried poblano pepper, reddish-brown in color, used esp. in Mexican cooking
  • anchor baby — a term used to refer to a baby born to an undocumented mother in a country where the baby becomes a citizen at birth, especially when the birth is planned to facilitate eventual legal residency for the family.
  • anchor ball — a day shape consisting of a black ball not less than 2 feet (0.6 meters) in diameter, displayed in the fore rigging of a vessel at anchor.
  • anchor bell — a bell rung in foggy weather by a vessel at anchor.
  • anchor bolt — any of several kinds of bolts inserted and fixed in masonry as a hold for timbers, shelves, etc.
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