11-letter words containing c, s, h, e
- cyberethics — Ethics in cyberspace.
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- 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
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- detachments — Plural form of detachment.
- deutschland — Germany
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- discotheque — a nightclub for dancing to live or recorded music and often featuring sophisticated sound systems, elaborate lighting, and other effects.
- disenchants — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenchant.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- duotheistic — Of or relating to duotheism.
- dyspathetic — characterized by dyspathy
- eames chair — Also called LCM chair. a side chair designed by Charles Eames in 1946, having a slender tubular steel frame with a seat and back of molded plywood panels.
- ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- enchantress — A woman who uses magic or sorcery, esp. to put someone or something under a spell.
- encroachers — Plural form of encroacher.
- endochylous — having water-storing cells
- enfranchise — Give the right to vote to.
- enrichments — Plural form of enrichment.
- ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
- ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
- erev pesach — the day before Passover
- erythristic — Exhibiting erythrism.
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
- eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- escheatable — Liable to escheat.
- escheatment — (legal) The process of transferring unclaimed or abandoned property to a state authority, especially when a person dies intestate.
- escherichia — a genus of Gram-negative rodlike bacteria that are found in the intestines of humans and many animals, esp E. coli, which is sometimes pathogenic and is widely used in genetic research
- escutcheons — Plural form of escutcheon.
- esthetician — Alternative spelling of aesthetician.
- estheticism — aestheticism