11-letter words containing c, r, o, s, h
- 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.
- 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.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.