11-letter words containing c, o, h, s
- cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
- cornish rex — a breed of cat with a very soft wavy coat, a small head, large eyes, and very large ears
- 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
- cosmothetic — positing the existence of the external world
- cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- 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 sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- cough syrup — Cough syrup is a liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
- 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.
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- cryophysics — a branch of physics in which phenomena are studied at low temperatures
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cynophilist — a person with a love of dogs
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cystolithic — a mass of calcium carbonate on the cellulose wall.
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write